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SERIAL NUMBER | FILING DATE~ Patent and Trademark Office Address : COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS ANO TRADEMARKS Washington. 0 C. 20231 FIRST NAMED APPLICANT ATTORNEY DOCKET NCL rn RECEIVED Ur 1 6 1985 PATENT RECORDS O'mwro'TO This is a communication from the examiner in charge of your appTTi J\755Tl7 COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS AND TRADEMARKS EXAMINER a r t u n it . ; i. DATE MAILED: 1 PAPER NUMBER 3 PSn This application has been examined [J] Responsive to communication filed onffy^-M. Y:i>r S jV/This action is made final. A shortened statutory period for response to this action is set to expire -lH.mG/ith(s),..................days from the date of this letter. Failure to respond within the period for response will cause the application to became abandoned. 35 U.S.C. 133 Part l THE FOLLOWING ATTACHMENT!5) ARE PART OF THIS ACTION: L Notice of References Cited by Examiner, PTO-Q92. 2. 3. f t Notice of Art Cited by Applicant, PTO-1449 4. S. [^} Information on How to Effect Drawing Changes, PTQ-1474 6* Q Notice re Patent Drawing, PTO-948. Notice of informal Patent Application, Form PTCW52 Part II SUMMARY OF ACTION 1. [jg] Claims------------------------- are pending in the application. Of the above, claims 2. [3 Claims >______ 3. Q Claims_____________________ 4* Q Claims \ 7 5. [^] Claims_________ 6. ~1 Claims -- are withdrawn from consideration. have been cancelled. are allowed. are rejected. are objected to. .are subject to restriction or election requirement. 7. 3. This application has been filed with informal drawings which are acceptable for examination purposes until such time as allowable subject matter is indicated. Allowable subject matter having been indicated, formal drawings are required in response to this Office action. 9. Q The corrected or substitute drawings have been received on______________________________________. These drawings are ! [acceptable; 1 1 not acceptable fsee explanation). 10. ThePj proposed drawing correction and/or the proposed additional or substitute sheetfs) of drawings, filed on . has (have) been approved by the examiner. Q disapproved by the examiner (see explanation). 11* Q The proposed drawing correction, filed.. has been f~~l approved. } 1 disapproved (see explanation). However, the Patent and Trademark Office no longer makes drawing changes. It is now applicants responsibility to ensure that the drawings are corrected. Corrections MUST be effected in accordance with the instructions set forth on the attached letter "INFORMATION ON HOW TO EFFECT DRAWING CHANGES", PTO-1474. 12. Q Acknowledgment is made of the claim for priority under 35 U.S.C. 119. The certified copy has been received not been received | | been filed in parent application, serial no. : filed on ____ 13. Since this application appears to be in condition for allowance except for formal matters, prosecution as to the merits is closed m accordance with the practice under Ex parte Quayie, 1935 C.D. 11; 453 O.G. 213. 14. Other PTOL-326 (Rev. 7 - B2) Ofo EXAMINER'S ACTION N36791 DUP050302165 Serial No. 721,215 Art Unit 151 -2- 15. Receipt is acknowledged of the preamendment filed April 8, 1985. 16. Claims 1-7 are present in the instant application. Claims 8-11 have been cancelled. 17. Claim 1 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112, second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to par ticularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which applicant regards as the invention. What is the scope of the expression "of the kind? 18. 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 - (b) the invention was patented or described in a printed publication in this or a foreign country or in public use or on sale in this country, more than one year prior to the date of application for patent in the United States. Claims 1-7 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(b) as anticipated by or, in the alternative, under 35 U.S.C. 103 as obvious over Camelon et al. U.S. 3,932,347 or U.S. 3,941,731. 19. No claim is allowed. 20 . This is a continuation of applicant's earlier application S.N. 06/613,658. All claims are drawn to the same invention claimed in the earlier application Serial No. 721,215 Art Unit 151 -3- and could have been finally rejected on the grounds or art of record in the next Office action if they had been entered in the earlier application. Accordingly, THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL even though it is a first action in this case. See MPEP 706.07(b). Applicant is reminded of the extension of time policy as set forth in 37 CFR 1.136(a). The practice of automatically extending the shortened statutory period an additional month upon the filing of a timely first response to a final rejection has been discontinued by the office. See 1021 TMOG 35. A SHORTENED STATUTORY PERIOD FOR RESPONSE TO THIS FINAL ACTION IS SET TO EXPIRE THREE MONTHS FROM THE DATE OF THIS ACTION. IN THE EVENT A FIRST RESPONSE IS FILED WITHIN TWO MONTHS OF THE MAILING DATE OF THIS FINAL ACTION AND THE ADVISORY ACTION IS NOT MAILED UNTIL AFTER THE END OF THE THREE-MONTH SHORTENED STATUTORY PERIOD, THEN THE SHORTENED STATUTORY PERIOD WILL EXPIRE ON THE DATE THE ADVISORY ACTION IS MAILED, AND ANY EXTENSION FEE PURSUANT TO 37 CFR 1.136(a) WILL BE CALCULATED FROM THE MAILING DATE OF THE ADVISORY ACTION. IN NO EVENT WILL THE STATUTORY PERIOD FOR RESPONSE EXPIRE LATER THAN SIX MONTHS FROM THE DATE OF THIS FINAL ACTION. H. LILLING:ag (703) 557-6525 8/30/85 I i/V.t'G P,T'?;7 EX-'.Vp!FR !0UP 150 - AST LiiliT 151 DU P050302167 m r FORM PTO-832 (REV, 3-78) U.S. DF.PAfl TMENT OF COMMERCE PATENT ANO TRAOEMARK OFFICE NOTICE OF REFERENCES CITED tSERIAL NO. a6hata is APPLICANT (S3 77?oY U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS OOCUV1EN r NO. OA*"S NAME A: * s' T i- \ i5 fa 8-Wt fa s-{= ^ L.U, S> &-- Cprw coo G C D E F G' H CROUP ART UNIT ATTACHMENT PAPER NUMBER 3 CLASS SU8C LASS sAM Hh ) Hh i PILING OATE IF APPROPRIATE 1 J K UGCUfV.INT NC FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS SUB CLASS PERTINENT i i i M OTHtfi Re f e r e n c e s (including Author, Title, Date, Pertinent Pages, Etc i EXAMINER VA. L\uu * A copy of this reference is not being furnished with this office action. (See Manual of Patent Examining Procedure, section 707.05 (a).) N36791.01 DUP050302168