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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 .
Claims 1-20 are currently pending and prosecuted.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of 35 U.S.C. 112(a):
(a) IN GENERAL.—The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor or joint inventor of carrying out the invention.
The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112:
The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor of carrying out his invention.
Claims 1-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(a) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), first paragraph, as failing to comply with the written description requirement. The claim(s) contains subject matter which was not described in the specification in such a way as to reasonably convey to one skilled in the relevant art that the inventor or a joint inventor, or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the inventor(s), at the time the application was filed, had possession of the claimed invention.
Claim 1 recites, “wherein the main line is divided into multiple groups, and each group of the main line comprises one first main line and a plurality of second main lines;
the first main line comprises two branch sections extending away from each other, and each of the plurality of second main lines comprises only one branch section;
in each group of the main line, the first main line has a longest extension length along the third direction;
in each group of the main line, the farther a second main line is from the first main line, the shorter an extension length of the second main line along the third direction is, and the longer an extension length of a branch line of the second main line along the outer contour of the pattern of the corresponding touch electrode is”. However, the specification and the drawings, particularly paragraphs [0104-0106] and Figure 11, fail to disclose or describe that a “main line” is divided into a “multiple groups”, how each of these groups comprise of “one first main line and a plurality of second main lines”, how the “first main line” comprises of “two branch sections” while each of the ”second main lines” comprises of “only one branch section”, that the “first main line” is the one that has a longest extension length along the third direction, that “the farther a second main line is from the first main line, the shorter an extension length of the second main line along the third direction is”, and that “the longer an extension length of a branch line of the second main line along the outer contour of the pattern of the corresponding touch electrode is”.
Claims 13 and 20, which recite similar limitations, are also rejected for the same rationale.
Claims 2-12, and 14-19, which are dependent from Claims 1 and 13, are also rejected for the same rationale.
Conclusion
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/PATRICK F MARINELLI/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2699
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