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Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claims 1-19 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor (or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention. Claims 2-5, 10-13 and 15-19 depend upon rejected claims 1 and 14 and inherit the deficiency thereby.
Claims 1, Line 1; and Claim 14, Line 1, “a termination circuit” is unclear to one of ordinary skill in the art as to what attributes or aspects make this circuit as claimed function as a “termination circuit”, especially since the claimed features do not appear to establish any nexus with the “termination circuit”, thereby leaving the boundaries of the claim difficult to ascertain.
Claim 6, Line 4, “an amplitude tuning circuit or a phase tuning circuit” is unclear to one of ordinary skill in the art as to how the “reconfigurable tuning circuit” can act as an “amplitude tuning circuit” or “phase tuning circuit” when claim 1, from which this claim depends, defines each plurality of “first tuning circuit” and “second tuning circuit” to comprise both the “amplitude tuning circuit” and the “phase tuning circuit”, thereby leaving the boundaries of the claim unclear.
Claims 7, Lines 1-2 and all further recitations; Claim 8, Lines 1-2; and Claim 9, Lines 1-2, “the reconfigurable tuning circuit” is unclear to one of ordinary skill in the art as to which of the “reconfigurable tuning circuit”, as previously defined in claim 6, from which these claims depend, is intended to reference to (i.e. from the first tuning circuit, from the second tuning circuit, etc.), thereby leaving the boundaries of the claim unclear.
Claim 8, Line 3, “the amplitude tuning circuit” is unclear to one of ordinary skill in the art as to which recitation of “amplitude tuning circuit” from claim 1 or from claim 6, from which this claim depends, this “the amplitude tuning circuit” is intended reference to, thereby leaving the boundaries of the claim unclear.
Claim 9, Line 3, “the phase tuning circuit” is unclear to one of ordinary skill in the art as to which recitation of “phase tuning circuit” from claim 1 or from claim 6, from which this claim depends, this “the phase tuning circuit” is intended reference to, thereby leaving the boundaries of the claim unclear.
Appropriate correction is required.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's
disclosure.
The most pertinent prior art is Patel (US 11569555), which teaches an antenna tuning circuit, phase shifters, and a system-on-chip.
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/ABIGAIL AMIR YALDO/Examiner, Art Unit 2843
/ANDREA LINDGREN BALTZELL/Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 2843
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