IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`IN RE PATENT OF:
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`REEXAMINATION NO.:
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`LI HAN
`95/002,235
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`FILED: 09/13/2012
`FOR: U.S. PATENT No. 8, 156,944
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`TITLE: AEROSOL ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE
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`EXAMINER: TERRENCE R. TILL
`ART UNIT:
`3991
`CONF. No:
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`3893
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`AMENDMENT
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`Commissioner for Patents
`P.O. Box 1450
`Alexandria, VA 22313-1450
`Sir:
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`In response to the Office Action dated 11 /27 /2012, please amend the patent as
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`follows:
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`Amendments to the Claims are reflected in the listing of claims on pages 2-5.
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`A Statement Under 37 CFR §1.985(a) is on page 6.
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`Status of the Claims is on page 7.
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`Support for Changes to the Claims is on page 8.
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`Claims Confirmed to be Patentable is on page 9.
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`Remarks are on pages 10-21.
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`A Proof of Service is attached.
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`Amendments to the Claims:
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`Please cancel claims 7, 27 and 37.
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`Pursuant to Rule 1.530(d)(2), claims 1-6, 8-26, 31, 33-36 and 38-41 of the patent are
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`not presented here because no changes are made to these claims.
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`Please amend claims 28-30 and 32 as follows:
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`28. (Amended) An aerosol electronic cigarette of claim [27,] 44 wherein the said case
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`has a spare liquid supply bottle in it.
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`29. (Amended) An aerosol electronic cigarette of claim [27,] 44 wherein the said power
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`output of the auxiliary charging storage battery is connected with the power input of the
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`charger.
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`30. (Amended) An aerosol electronic cigarette of claim [27,] 44 wherein the power
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`output of the said charger is a charging slot, which fits with a charging plug of the
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`rechargeable battery inside the electronic cigarette, or a charging plug, which fits with
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`the charging slot of the rechargeable battery.
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`32. (Amended) An aerosol electronic cigarette of claim [27,] 44 wherein on the principal
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`part of the said case, there is a pair of slide ways corresponding to the position of the
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`said electronic cigarette, and on the slide ways, there is a slide cover.
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`Please add new claims 42-44 as follows:
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`42 (New) An aerosol electronic cigarette. comprising:
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`a battery assembly, an atomizer assembly, a cigarette-solution storage area. and
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`a hollow shell having a mouthpiece. the battery assembly connects with the atomizer
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`assembly, and both are located in the shell;
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`the cigarette solution storage area is located in one end of the shell adjacent to
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`the mouthpiece. and fits with at least a portion of the atomizer assembly inside it;
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`the shell has through-air-inlets;
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`the atomizer assembly includes an atomizer comprising an electric heating rod
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`and a run-through atomizing chamber;
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`the electric heating rod comprises a cylinder and a heating element provided at a
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`wall of the cylinder. the heating element is a coiled wire that extends along the length of
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`the cylinder and is on an outer surface of the cylinder. the electric heating rod is in the
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`atomizing chamber and there is a negative pressure cavity in the atomizing chamber.
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`43. (New) An aerosol electronic cigarette. comprising:
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`a battery assembly, an atomizer assembly, a cigarette solution storage area. and
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`a hollow shell having a mouthpiece. the battery assembly connects with the atomizer
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`assembly, and both are located in the shell;
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`the cigarette solution storage area is located in one end of the shell proximal to
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`the mouthpiece. and fits with at least a portion of the atomizer assembly inside it;
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`the shell has through-air-inlets;
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`the atomizer assembly is an atomizer. which includes a porous component and
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`an electric heating rod;
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`wherein the electric heating rod comprises a cylinder and a heating element
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`provided at a wall of the cylinder and outside of the wall of the cylinder. the porous
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`component has a run-through atomizing chamber; and
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`the electric heating rod is in the atomizing chamber and there is a negative
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`pressure cavity in the atomizing chamber.
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`44. (New) An aerosol electronic cigarette. comprising:
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`a battery assembly. an atomizer assembly. a cigarette solution storage area. and
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`a hollow shell having a mouthpiece and through-air-inlets. with the battery assembly
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`connected with the atomizer assembly. and with the battery assembly and the atomizer
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`assembly in the shell;
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`the cigarette solution storage area is located in one end of the shell proximal to
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`the mouthpiece. and fits with at least a portion of the atomizer assembly inside it;
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`the atomizer assembly is an atomizer. which includes a porous component and
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`an electric heating rod; wherein the electric heating rod comprises a cylinder and a
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`heating element provided at a wall of the cylinder. the porous component has a run-
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`through atomizing chamber. and the electric heating rod is in the atomizing chamber
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`and. there is a negative pressure cavity in the atomizing chamber;
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`wherein the battery assembly includes a rechargeable battery and the electronic
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`cigarette is configured to connect to a charging device including a case which contains
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`an auxiliary charging storage battery and holds the electronic cigarette and the charger
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`for the rechargeable battery in the electronic cigarette.
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`1. STATEMENT UNDER 37 CFR §1.985(a)
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`The Patent Owner advises that each of the following civil actions for infringement
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`of U.S. Patent NO. 8, 156,944 is pending except for the Barjan LLC case where a default
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`has been entered by the Clerk of the Court.
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`Ruyan Investment (Holdings) Limited v. The Safe Gig. LLC, Central District of California,
`Case No. CV12-5462 GAF (FFMx);
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`Ruyan Investment (Holdings) Limited v. Nicotek LLC, Central District of California, Case
`No. CV12-54 77 GAF (FFMx);
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`Ruyan Investment (Holdings) Limited v. Finiti Branding Group. LLC, Central District of
`California, Case No. CV12-5468 GAF (FFMx);
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`Ruyan Investment (Holdings) Limited v. Sottera. Inc., Central District of California, Case
`No. CV12-5454 GAF (FFMx);
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`Ruyan Investment (Holdings) Limited v. Loec. Inc., Central District of California, Case
`No. CV12-5455-GAF (FFMx);
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`Ruyan Investment (Holdings) Limited v. Logic Technology Development LLC, Central
`District of California, Case No. CV12-5482 GAF (FFMx);
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`Ruyan Investment (Holdings) Limited v. Spark Industries. LLC, Central District of
`California, Case No. CV12-5472 GAF (FFMx);
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`Ruyan Investment (Holdings) Limited v. Vapor Corp., Central District of California, Case
`No. CV12-5466 GAF (FFMx);
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`Ruyan Investment (Holdings) Limited v. CB Distributors. Inc .. et al., Central District of
`California, Case No. CV12-5456 GAF (FFMx); and
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`Ruyan Investment (Holdings) Limited v. Barjan LLC. et al., Central District of California,
`Case No. CV12-54 70 GAF (FFMx).
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`The Finiti Branding Group, LLC case is the same case as listed at page 7 of the
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`Request.
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`The Patent Owner is not aware of any other prior or concurrent proceedings
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`involving the patent.
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`2.
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`STATUS OF THE CLAIMS
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`A.] The patent issued with claims 1-41.
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`B.] Claims 1-41 are subject to reexamination.
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`In the 11/27/2012 Office Action:
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`C.] Claims 7, 13, 14, 27-32, 37 and 39-41 are confirmed.
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`D.] Claims 1-6, 8-12, 15-26, 33-36 and 38 are rejected. Specifically, claims 1-4,
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`8-12, 15-26, 33, 34, 36 and 38 are rejected as anticipated over Hon '494 (Ground 1 ).
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`Claims 1, 2, 5, 6, 8-12, 15-17, 24, 26, 33-36 and 38 are rejected as obvious over the
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`combination of Hon '494 and Hon '955 (Ground 2). The other proposed grounds for
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`rejection, (Grounds 3-6) are not adopted.
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`E.] Claims 7, 27 and 37 are canceled.
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`F.] Claims 42-44 are new claims added. Additional claim fees are paid with this
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`Amendment.
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`G.] Claims 28, 29, 30 and 32 are amended to depend from new claim 44 instead
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`of claim 27.
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`H.] No other changes are made to the claims.
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`3.
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`SUPPORT FOR CHANGES TO THE CLAIMS
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`New claim 42 includes the content of claims 1, 5 and 7 and is claim 7 rewritten
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`into independent form. Support for new claim 42 is in claims 1, 5 and 7. New claim 42 is
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`also supported at Col. 6, lines 13-42, Col. 8, lines 32-62 and in Figs. 1, 5-8, and 13-16.
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`New claim 43 includes the content of claims 10 and 37 and is claim 37 rewritten
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`into independent form. Support for new claim 43 is in claims 10 and 37. New claim 43 is
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`also supported at Col. 6, lines 13-42, Col. 8, lines 32-62 and in Figs. 1, 5-8, and 13-16.
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`New claim 44 includes the content of claims 10, 26 and 27 and is claim 27
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`rewritten into independent form. Support for new claim 44 is in claims 10, 26 and 27 of
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`the patent. New claim 44 is also supported at Col. 6, lines 13-42, Col. 7, line 50 to Col.
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`8, line 3, Col. 8, lines 32-62, in Figs. 1, 5-8, 13-16 and 22-24.
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`4. CLAIMS CONFIRMED TO BE PATENTABLE
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`In the 11/27/2012 Office Action claims 7, 13, 14, 27-32, 37 and 39-41 are
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`confirmed to be patentable. In this Amendment:
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`A. Claim 7 is rewritten into independent form as new claim 42, which includes the
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`content of claims 1, 5 and 7.
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`B. Claim 37 is rewritten into independent form as new claim 43, which includes the
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`content of claims 10 and 37.
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`C. Claim 27 is rewritten into independent form as new claim 44, which includes the
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`content of claims 10, 26 and 27.
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`New claims 42-44 are patentable on the basis of the confirmation of claims 7, 37 and
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`27, respectively.
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`Claims 28-32 depend directly or indirectly from new claim 44 are patentable at least for
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`the same reason that new claim 44 is patentable.
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`5. RESPONSE TO THE REJECTION OF CLAIMS 1-4. 8-12. 15-26. 33. 34. 36 AND 38
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`AS ANTICIPATED BY HON '494 (GROUND 1)
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`A. The Run-Through Atomizing Chamber
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`Claims 1 and 10 both include a run-through atomizing chamber. The run-through
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`atomizing chamber is described at Col 6, lines 15-16 which read:
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`"The body of the porous component (82) has a run-through atomizing chamber
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`(811)."
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`The run-through atomizing chamber is further explained at Col. 8, lines 43-45 which
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`read:
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`"On the surface of the fixed plate (84 ), there is a mandril (842), whose front end
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`lies against one end of the porous component (81 ), so that the fixed plate (84) is
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`separated from the atomizing chamber (811) of the porous component (81 ). As a result,
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`the run-through hole on one end of the atomizing chamber (811) won't be blocked, and
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`the mist generated in the atomizing chamber (811) can be dispersed." (emphasis
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`added).
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`Fig. 16 shows one example of the run-through atomizing chamber.
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`As shown, the cavity or cylindrical passageway (at 83) extends entirely through
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`component 8, in a straight line. Both ends of the cylindrical passageway are open, so
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`that the "atomizing chamber 811 won't be blocked." Flow through the run-through
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`chamber is largely unrestricted. As disclosed in the 944 patent, additional elements
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`such as plate 84 may be positioned upstream of the atomizing chamber 811, without
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`blocking air flow through the atomizing chamber 811. The pressure drop through the
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`run-through atomizing chamber (or its resistance to flow) may be reduced in comparison
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`to the other flow restrictions through the electronic cigarette resulting from the geometry
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`of its components, as shown in Fig. 1 of the 944 patent.
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`Page 5 of the Office Action cites to a run-through atomizing chamber in Hon '494
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`as follows:
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`"the atomizer assembly includes an atomizer comprising an electric heating rod
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`25, 26 and a run-through atomizing chamber (open area 1 O);"
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`However, in Hon '494, element 25 is the atomizing chamber wall and element 26
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`(RL) is the heating member. Relevant figures from Hon '494 are shown below.
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`The open area 10 is not open at the back As shown in Figs 6 and 8 it is largely closed
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`off at the back end. This is discussed at page 5 of the machine translation of Hon '494
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`provided with the Office Action, which reads:
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`"It has the jet orifice just to open one side of heating member 26, and the jet
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`orifice can be according to the material of atomizing chamber wall 25 and choose long
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`air current jet orifice 24 for use or lose heart jet injection hole 30. Long air current jet
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`orifice 24 can adopt the haplopore and the cellular structure of 0.1 mm to 1.3 mm slit
`structure or ct> 0.2 mm to 1.3 mm round hole; Lose heart the diameter in jet injection
`hole 30 at 0.3 mm to 1.3 mm. Atomizing chamber 25 outsourcings on the wall have
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`porous body 27, and available Foamed nickel, stainless steel fiber felt, polymer poly
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`thing foaming body and foamed ceramics are made."
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`A human translation of this passage from Hon '494 is provided in US2007/-
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`0267031A which correspondingly reads:
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`"An ejection hole is provided on the side opposite to the heating element 26 and the
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`ejection hole can be determined to select either the long stream ejection hole 24 or the
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`short stream ejection hole 30, depending on the material used for the atomization cavity
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`wall 25. The long stream ejection hole 24 can employ slot structure of 0.1 mm-1.3 mm
`or circular hole structure of ct> .0.2 mm-1.3 mm with a single and multiple holes. The
`short stream ejection hole 30 has the diameter of about 0.3 mm-1.3 mm. The
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`atomization cavity wall 25 is surrounded with the porous body 27, which can be made of
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`foam nickel, stainless steel fiber felt, high molecule polymer foam and foam ceramic."
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`Hon '494 describes vapor moving out of the atomizing chamber at the last three
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`lines of page 5 of the machine translation as follows:
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`" ... the suspension of minor diameter droplet in the air current formation aerosol
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`through fog vapour passageway 12, air guide hole 17, suction nozzle 15 by the suction
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`36 contacts of arch on liquid porous body 28 ... "
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`The corresponding text from US 2007/0267031 is
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`" ... the droplets with small diameter float in stream and forms aerosols, which are
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`sucked out via the aerosol passage 12, gas vent 17 and mouthpiece 15."
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`In Hon '494 the front of the atomizing chamber (closest to the mouthpiece)
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`necessarily has an opening, to allow the vapor to flow out. Element 36 in Fig. 6 above
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`from Hon '494 is an "arch". The vapor flows out around the arch as shown in the
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`construct below.
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`electric heating rod 25, 26 comprising a cylinder 25 and a heating element 26 provided
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`with Hon '955 because the combination of Hon '494 and Hon '955 does not disclose a
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`run-through chamber or a heating rod in the atomizing chamber.
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`The absence of the run-through chamber and the heating rod in Hon '494 is
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`explained in Section 4 above. Hon '955 also does not disclose these elements. Hon
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`" Gasification spray tube 17 available ordinary potteries are made, or aluminium
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`silicate pottery, titanium oxide, zirconia, yttrium, dissolve silicon, silica, dissolve the
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`aluminium oxide and make, and the shape is the straight tube describes or the
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`heliciform, and also the similar material of available polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE),
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`carbon fiber, glass fibre or performance is made. The 17 interior available nichrome wire
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`of electrical heating component, Aludirome silk, stainless steel wire, gold wire, platinum
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`filament, tungsten-molybdenum alloy silks of gasification spray tube are made. The
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`shape is linearity, single-screw form, double helix form, form tied in a bundle, spiral form
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`tied in a bundle, Wherein use linearity and heliciform tied in a bundle for preferred; The
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`electrical heating component can be the form heating that adds the hot coating in the
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`inner wall coating of managing, The coating can be electric heat ceramic material,
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`Semiconductor Materials, Corrosion-resistant metal film, like gold, nickel, chromium,
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`platinum, molybdenum; The coating method can adopt coating sintering process,
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`electro less deposition sintering process and ion splash; The available above-mentioned
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`material of mode of heating and the mode of high temperature gasification spray tube
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`are adorned in the pipe wall of spray tube, The heating wire can not adorned to metallic
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`one-tenth spray tube with the high resistance. The direct metal spray tube of giving lets
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`in the heating current; Also available above-mentioned material and mode dress is in
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`the outside of spray tube also can obtain the suitable response time in the Power supply
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`mode that the short-term is preheated."
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`"7 structure charts that are the reduced form in the picture have wherein saved
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`ultrasonic atomizatio high-frequency generator and piezoelectric ceramic piece 20. For
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`guaranteeing the atomizing effect, use sharp heating wire and spray tube cooperation
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`(picture 3 is seen to the structure), make the aperture in one or more gasification
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`chambeies that heating wire and spray tube inner wall formed. the maximum diameter
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`of hole is in 0.02."
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`A human translation of these passages from Hon '955 is provided at 0020 and
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`0023 in US 2006/0196518 where the corresponding text reads:
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`"The electro-thermal vaporization nozzle 17 is made of high-temperature(cid:173)
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`resistant materials with low thermal conductivity. The nozzle 17 is a tubule, with the
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`internal diameter of 0.05-2 mm and the effective working length of 3-20 mm. An electric
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`heating element is provided within the nozzle, and the shapes of the electric beating
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`element and the cavity of the nozzle are designed to facilitate vaporization and ejection
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`of liquid. The vaporization nozzle 17 may be made of conventional ceramics, or be
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`made of aluminum silicate ceramics, titanium oxide, zirconium dioxide, yttrium oxide
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`ceramics, molten silicon, silicon dioxide, molten aluminum oxide. The vaporization
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`nozzle 17 may be in the shape of straight tube or spiral, and may also be made from
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`polytetrafluoethylene, carbon fiber, glass fiber or other materials with similar properties.
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`The electric heating element arranged within the vaporization nozzle 17 may be made
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`of wires of nickel chromium alloy, iron chromium aluminum alloy, stainless steel, gold,
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`platinum, tungsten molybdenum alloy, etc., and may be in the shape of straight line,
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`single spiral, double spiral, cluster or spiral cluster, wherein the straight line and cluster
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`are preferred. The heating function of the electric heating element may be achieved by
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`applying a heating coating on the inner wall of the tube, and the coating may be made
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`from electro-thermal ceramic materials, semiconductor materials, corrosion-resistant
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`metal films, such as gold, nickel, chromium, platinum and molybdenum. The method for
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`coating can include a coat sintering process, a chemical deposition sintering process
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`and an ion spraying process. The materials mentioned above can be provided within the
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`inner wall of vaporization nozzle in any of the processes mentioned above. The nozzle
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`with high resistance, made of metal, can have no electric heating element being
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`attached, and can be directly applied with heating current. Alternatively, the materials
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`mentioned above can be arranged outside of the nozzle in any of the ways mentioned
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`above, and an appropriate response time can also be achieved in the power supply
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`mode of short-term preheating."
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`the present invention, in which the ultrasonic atomization high frequency generator and
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`the piezoelectric ceramic element 20 are omitted. To achieve a desirable atomization
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`effect, tiny heating wires are used in combination with the nozzle (see FIG. 3), so that
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`the maximum diameters of one or more vaporization cavities formed between the
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`heating wire and the inner wall of the nozzle range from 0.02 mm to 0.6 mm."
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`Other vaporization nozzle designs are shown at 117, 217 and 317 in Figs. 7-9, of
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`Hon '955.
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`Hon '955 discloses a vaporization nozzle, not a run-through chamber. The
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`difference is that in contrast to the claimed run-through chamber, no air flows into or
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`through the nozzle of Hon '955. Rather, in Hon '955 liquid is pumped into the nozzle 17
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`and is heated to create vapor. The vapor moves out of the front end of the nozzle into
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`the mouthpiece and is entrained in air drawn into the mouthpiece through air inlets 16.
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`This is shown in the annotated Fig. 1 below.
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`nozzle is connected to the liquid supply by a tube, as further shown in the details from
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`chamber as it has no rear opening. Nothing runs through it. Liquid enters and vapor
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`exits, but no air runs through it. There is also no negative pressure cavity in the nozzle.
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`To the contrary, the pressure in the nozzle is positive. Liquid is pumped into the back
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`end of the nozzle and is boiled or vaporized within the nozzle. Since the volume of the
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`vapor is much greater than the volume of liquid, the pressure in the nozzle is positive.
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`Hon '955 also does not disclose an electric heating rod comprising a cylinder,
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`with the electric heating rod in an atomizing chamber. Even if the nozzle 17 in Hon '955
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`is viewed as an electric heating rod comprising a cylinder, there is no electric heating
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`rod lo_an atomizing chamber, because the nozzle 17 then forms or defines the chamber.
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`The nozzle 17 cannot both form the chamber and also be in the chamber.
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`Neither Hon '494 nor Hon '955 suggest a run-through chamber or the electric
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`heating rod as in claims 1 and 10. These claims consequently cannot be obvious over
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`the combination of Hon '494 and Hon '955.
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`7. PROOF OF SERVICE
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`A proof of service of this paper on counsel for the requestor is attached.
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`Dated: January 28, 2013
`Customer No. 34055
`Perkins Coie LLP
`Patent - LA
`P.O. Box 1208
`Seattle, WA 98111-1208
`Phone: (310) 788-3267
`Fax: (206) 332-7198
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`PERKINS COIE LLP
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`By:/KennethHOhriner/
`Kenneth H. Ohriner
`Reg. No. 31,646
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