DETAIL ACTION
Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
1. The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Continued Examination Under 37 CFR 1.114
2. A request for continued examination under 37 CFR 1.114, including the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(e), was filed in this application after final rejection. Since this application is eligible for continued examination under 37 CFR 1.114, and the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(e) has been timely paid, the finality of the previous Office action has been withdrawn pursuant to 37 CFR 1.114. Applicant's submission filed on 06/11/2026 has been entered.
3. This office action is in response to the communication filed on 06/11/2026. There are a total of 21 claims pending in the application. Claims 11, 16, 20, and 22 have been amended, no claims have been added or canceled.
IFORMATION CONCENING DRAWING:
4. Application’s drawing submitted on 07/07/2025 are acceptable for examination purposes.
INFORMATION CONCERNING IDS:
5. The information disclosure statements (IDS’) submitted on 06/11/2026 and 07/02/2026 are in compliance with the provisions of 37 CFR 1.97. Accordingly, the information disclosure statement has been considered by the Examiner and a copy (copies) of PTOL-1449(s) initiated and signed by the Examiner is/are attached.
INFORMATION CONCERNING CLAIMS:
Claim Objections
6. Claim 22 is objected to because of the following informalities:
Claim 22 has been amended to recite “The memory module of claim +2, wherein…” There is no claim +2. The Examiner has assumed that Applicant had meant “The memory module of claim [[1]] 2, wherein…”
Appropriate correction is required.
Claim Rejections
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.
7. Claims 1-10 and 18-26 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.
8. Independent claim 1, in part, recites the limitation:
“the input voltage being less than half the regulated voltage.”
The claimed specification does not appear to describe/support the above limitations as claimed. Independent claim 18 includes similar limitation and is rejected based on the same ground of rejection. The dependent claims 2-10 and 19-26 are rejected at least by virtue of their dependency from their respected independent claims.
Response to Remarks
9. In view of claim amendment and further review of claim limitations, the examiner has minor error in claim 22 amendment and the limitation “the input voltage being less half the regulated voltage” is not described/supported in the instant specification. Therefore, the independent claims 1 and 18 and the claims dependent from claims 1 and are rejected under 35 USC 112(a) as failing to comply with the written description requirement.
Conclusion
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/HASHEM FARROKH/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2138
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