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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 George et al. (US 20190043919).
As to claim 1, George et al.’s figure 8 shows a transmission line, used for a radio frequency device (microwave transmission line, ¶0089, ¶0141), comprising a reflector (304-1 and/or 304-2), an insulation support (312), and a transmission structure (306), wherein the transmission structure comprises plurality of side walls; an angle between two adjacent side walls among the plurality of side walls of the transmission structure is greater than zero, and different side walls among the plurality of side walls of the transmission structure are located on different surfaces of the insulation support; and at least one side wall among the plurality of side walls of the transmission structure is disposed opposite to at least one surface of the reflector, and a gap exists between the at least one side wall of the transmission structure and the reflector.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made.
Claim(s) 1-3 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Kim et al. (US 20230208001) in view of George et al. (US 20190043919) and/or Yoshida et al. (US 20150380797).
As to claim 1, Kim et al.’s figures 2A-2B 8 show a transmission line, used for a radio frequency device (¶0004), comprising a reflector (210), an insulation support (230), and a transmission structure (220). The figures fail to show that the transmission structure comprises plurality of side walls; an angle between two adjacent side walls among the plurality of side walls of the transmission structure is greater than zero, and different side walls among the plurality of side walls of the transmission structure are located on different surfaces of the insulation support. However, George et al.’s figures show that a single layer transmission line 306 in figure 6 is replaced with transmission structure 306 disposed on the surfaces of the insulation support 312. Yoshida et al.’s figures 2A-2B also show a transmission line that comprises transmission structure 8 disposed on the surfaces of the insulation support 6. Therefore, it would have been obvious to one having ordinary skill in the art to use George et al.’s transmission structure 306 in figure 8 or Yoshida et al.’s transmission structure for Kim et al.’s transmission structure 220 for the purpose of improving performance (George’s ¶0004). The modified Kim et al.’s figures further show that at least one side wall among the plurality of side walls of the transmission structure is disposed opposite to at least one surface of the reflector, and a gap exists between the at least one side wall of the transmission structure and the reflector.
As to claim 2, Goeorge et al.’s figure 13 shows a device comprises antenna 2022, Kim’s figure 1B shows that a device comprises antenna, and Yoshida et al.’s figure 1 shows a device comprises antenna 16. It would have been obvious to one having ordinary skill in the art to use the George et al. and Kim et al.’s transmission line to drive an antenna for the purpose of improving the driving performance. Thus, the shown the radio frequency device is an antenna apparatus, a filter, a power splitter, a combiner, or a phase shifter.
As to claim 3, Kim et al. or George et al.’s figures show a feed network, used for an antenna apparatus, comprising at least one transmission line as claimed.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 4-20 are allowed.
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/QUAN TRA/
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