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`Applicant(s): Li HAN
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`Confirmation No.2 TBD
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`U.S. Patent Application No.: TBD
`Divisional of US. Patent Application
`12/226, 818, filed on October 29, 2008
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`Art Unit: TBD
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`Filed: Conctnrent Herewith
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`Examiner: TBD
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`Title: AEROSOL ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE Attorney Docket No.: JANLEA~0O1-DIV
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`PRELIMINARY AMENDMENT
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`April 5, 2011
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`Commissioner for Patents
`P.O. Box 1450
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`Alexandria, VA 22313-1450
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`Dear Sir:
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`Prior to examination on the merits please amend the following:
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`Amendments to the Specification begin 011 page 2.
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`Amendments to the Claims begin on page 3.
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`Remarks follow the above-mentioned amendments.
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`VMR-Ex. 1016-001
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`Amendments to the Specification:
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`Please add the following paragraph before the first paragraph of the Specification as follows:
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`RELATED APPLICATIONS
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`This application is divisional of U.S. Patent Application No. 12/226,818, filed
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`October 29, 2008, which is the U.S. national stage application to International Patent Application
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`No. PCT/CN2007/001575, filed on May 15, 2007, which claims priority, under 35 U.S.C. § 119,
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`to Chinese Patent Application No.: 200620090805.0, filed on May 16, 2006, the disclosures of
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`W11ich are incorporated by reference herein in their entireties.
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`Amendment to the Claims:
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`This listing of the claims will replace all prior Versions, and listings, of claims in the application:
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`l—29.
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`(canceled).
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`30.
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`(new) An aerosol electronic cigarette, comprising:
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`a battery assembly, an atomizer assembly and a cigarette bottle assembly, and features a
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`shell that is hollow and integrally formed:
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`the said battery assembly connects with the said atomizer assembly, and both are located
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`in the said shell;
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`the said cigarette bottle assembly is detachably located in one end of the shell, and fits
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`with the said atomizer assembly inside it;
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`the said shell has tl1rough—air-inlets;
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`the atomizer assembly is an atomizer, wl1ich includes a porous component and a heating
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`body;
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`the said heating body is heating wire;
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`the said atomizer includes a frame;
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`the said porous component is set on the said frame;
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`the heating wire is WOU.11Cl on the said porous component;
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`the said frame has a run-through hole on it;
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`the said porous component is wound with heating wire in the part that is on the side in the
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`axial direction of the run-through l1o1e;
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`and one end of the said porous component fits with the said cigarette bottle assembly.
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`REMARKS
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`The present application is a divisional of U.S. Patent Application 12/226,818, filed
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`October 29, 2008, which was subj ect to a restriction requirement, which issued February 2, 2011.
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`Applicants responded on February 2, 2011, to elect Group 1, consisting of Claims 33-36, and 38-
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`59, directed towards an aerosol electronic cigarette, as embodied by Figure 5. Please note that, in
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`the parent application, Claims 1-32 were cancelled in a Second Preliminary Amendment, filed on
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`April 20, 2009.
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`The present Preliminary Amendment cancels original Claims 1-29 and adds new Claim
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`30. Claim 30 represents the non-elected Group II of the parent application, which consists of
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`Claim 37, as embodied by Figure 17.
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`Moreover, the Applicants submit that no new matter has been introduced by the foregoing
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`amendments.
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`Applicants believe that Claim 30 is ready to be examined on the merits.
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`MAIER & MAIER, PLLC
`1000 Duke Street
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`Alexandria, VA 22314
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`(703) 740-8322
`Customer No. 62008
`April 5, 2011
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`/Timothy J. Maier/
`Timothy J. Maier
`Reg. No. 51,986
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