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 § 102
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(a)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim(s) 1 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Quattlebaum et al. (US 11,174,712), hereinafter (“Quattlebaum”), and provided by applicant. Quattlebaum (Fig 3) discloses a perforating gun, comprising: a detonator (304); a detonating cord (108); and a ballistic interrupter (306) actuable from: a disarmed state (Fig 3) or configuration, in which: the ballistic interrupter is oriented so as to provide a mechanical barrier impeding ballistic communication between the detonator and the detonating cord; and the detonating cord is longitudinally overlapped by both the detonator and the mechanical barrier impeding said ballistic communication between the detonator and the detonating cord; to an armed state (Fig 4) or configuration, in which: the ballistic interrupter is oriented so as to permit ballistic communication between the detonator and the detonating cord; and the perforating gun, including the detonator, the detonating cord, and the ballistic interrupter, is adapted to be run downhole for detonation.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-12 objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Claims 13-30 allowed.
Conclusion
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/REGINALD S TILLMAN, JR/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3641