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`CONFIRMATIONNO.
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`13/549,213
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`07/13/2012
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`David F. SORRELLS
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`Please find below and/or attached an Office communication concerning this application or proceeding.
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`SORRELLS ETAL.
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`Examiner
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`Office Action Summary
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`2646Sam Bhattacharya Na
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`Status
`1)L] Responsive to communication(s) filed on
`LJ A declaration(s)/affidavit(s) under 37 CFR 1.130(b) was/werefiledon__
`2a)L] This action is FINAL.
`2b) This action is non-final.
`3)L] Anelection was made bythe applicant in responsetoarestriction requirementset forth during the interview on
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`; the restriction requirement and election have been incorporatedinto this action.
`4)[] Since this application is in condition for allowance exceptfor formal matters, prosecution as to the merits is
`closed in accordance with the practice under Ex parte Quayle, 1935 C.D. 11, 453 O.G. 213.
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`Disposition of Claims
`5)X] Claim(s) 1-18 is/are pending in the application.
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`5a) Of the above claim(s)
`is/are withdrawn from consideration.
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`6)L] Claim(s)
`is/are allowed.
`7) Claim(s) 1-8 is/are rejected.
`8)X] Claim(s) 9-18 is/are objected to.
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`9)L] Claim(s)
`are subject to restriction and/or election requirement.
`* If any claims have been determined allowable, you may be eligible to benefit from the Patent Prosecution Highway program at a
`participating intellectual property office for the corresponding application. For more information, please see
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`Application Papers
`10)L] The specification is objected to by the Examiner.
`11)K] The drawing(s)filed on 13 July 2012 is/are: a)X] accepted or b)_] objected to by the Examiner.
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`Priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119
`12)[] Acknowledgment is made of a claim for foreign priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119(a)-(d) or (f).
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`2.L] Certified copies of the priority documents have been received in Application No.
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`“ See the attached detailed Office action for a list of the certified copies not received.
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`Application/Control Number: 13/549,213
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`Art Unit: 2646
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`DETAILED ACTION
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`Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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`The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 that
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`form the basis for the rejections under this section madein this Office action:
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`A personshall be entitled to a patent unless —
`(b) the invention was patented or described in a printed publication in this or a foreign country orin
`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 1-18 are rejected under pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102(b) as being anticipated by Arpaia
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`et al. (US 6,192,225).
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`Regarding claim 1, Arpaia discloses a system for frequency down-converting a
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`modulated carrier signal (FIG. 5), comprising: a first switch, a first aperture signal, andafirst
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`energy storage element that down-converts said modulated carrier signal accordingto a first
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`control signal and outputs a down-converted in-phase signal portion of said modulated carrier
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`signal; a second switch, a second aperture signal, and a second energy storage elementthat
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`down-converts said modulated carrier signal according to a second control signal and outputs a
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`down-converted inverted in-phase signal portion of said modulatedcarrier signal (col. 4, lines
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`21-50); and a first differential amplifier circuit that combines said down-converted in-phase
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`signal portion with said inverted in-phase signal portion and outputs a first channel down-
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`converted differential in-phase signal(col. 5, lines 31-50).
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`Regarding claim 2, Arpaia discloses that said second control signal is delayed by 0.5+n
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`cycles of said first control signal, wherein n comprises zero (Q) or any integer greater than or
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`equal to 1 after the occurrence ofsaid first control signal (col. 4, lines 21-50).
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`Regarding claim 3, Arpaia discloses that the first and second aperture signal period is two
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`(2) percent or greater of the modulated carrier period (col. 5, lines 4-20).
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`Application/Control Number: 13/549,213
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`Art Unit: 2646
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`Regarding claim 4, Arpaia discloses that the first and second aperture signal periodis five
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`(5) percent or greater of the modulated carrier period (col. 5, lines 4-20).
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`Regarding claim 5, Arpaia discloses that the first and second aperture signal period is ten
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`(10) percent or greater of the modulated carrier period (col. 5, lines 4-20).
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`Regarding claim 6, Arpaia discloses that the first and second aperture signal period is
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`twelve and a half (12.5) percent or greater of the modulated carrier period (col. 5, lines 4-20).
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`Regarding claim 7, Arpaia disclosesa first filter that filters said down-converted in-phase
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`signal portion; and a secondfilter that filters said down-converted inverted in-phase signal
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`portion (col. 5, lines 51-62).
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`Regarding claim 8, Arpaia discloses that the first and secondfilters each comprise a low-
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`pass filter (col. 5, lines 51-62).
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`Allowable Subject Matter
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`3.
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`Claims 9-18 are objected to as being dependent upona rejected base claim, but would be
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`allowable if rewritten in independent form includingall of the limitations of the base claim and
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`any intervening claims.
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`The following is a statement of reasonsfor the indication of allowable subject
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`matter:
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`the prior art fails to disclose that a third switch, a third aperture signal, and a third energy
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`storage element that down-converts said modulated carrier signal according to a third control
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`signal and outputs a down-converted quadrature-phase signal portion of said modulated carrier
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`signal; a fourth switch, a forth aperture signal, and a fourth energy storage element that down-
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`converts said modulated carrier signal according to a fourth control signal and outputs a down-
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`Application/Control Number: 13/549,213
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`Art Unit: 2646
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`converted inverted quadrature-phase signal portion of said modulated carrier signal; and a second
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`differential amplifier circuit that combines said down-converted quadrature-phase signal portion
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`with said inverted quadrature-phase signal portion and outputs a second channel down-converted
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`differential quadrature-phase signal, as in claim 9.
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`Any inquiry concerning this communication or earlier communications from the
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`examiner should be directed to Sam Bhattacharya whose telephone numberis (571)272-7917.
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`/Sam Bhattacharya/
`Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2646
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