Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
DETAILED ACTION
This office action is in response to the communication filed on 12/29/2025.
Response to Arguments
Applicant's arguments filed 4/6/2026 have been fully considered and are persuasive. However, new matter has been introduced as discussed below.
All objections and rejections not set forth below have been withdrawn.
Claims 1-6, 8-13, and 15-19 have been examined.
Specification
The specification is objected to as failing to provide proper antecedent basis for the claimed subject matter. See 37 CFR 1.75(d)(1) and MPEP § 608.01(o). Correction of the following is required:
Claims 1, 8, and 15 (and the remaining claims by virtue of their dependence) were amended to add the language “obtaining information associated with the user from one or more cloud services via one or more connecters…and notifying the IDP for remediation based thereon”. The applicants state that no new matter was added in the claims, however the examiner has reviewed the sections cited by the applicants as providing support and does not find proper support therein. While there appears to be support for obtaining information from one or more connectors, there does not appear to be support for the “notifying the IDP for remediation” being based upon the information obtained from the connectors. Rather, the specification appears to support the notifying being based upon the detection of anomalous behavior. As such, the specification is objected to for failing to provide proper antecedent basis for the claimed subject matter.
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.
Claims 1-6, 8-13, and 15-19 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.
Claims 1, 8, and 15 (and the remaining claims by virtue of their dependence) were amended to add the language “obtaining information associated with the user from one or more cloud services via one or more connecters…and notifying the IDP for remediation based thereon”. The applicants state that no new matter was added in the claims, however the examiner has reviewed the sections cited by the applicants as providing support and does not find proper support therein. While there appears to be support for obtaining information from one or more connectors, there does not appear to be support for the “notifying the IDP for remediation” being based upon the information obtained from the connectors. Rather, the specification appears to support the notifying being based upon the detection of anomalous behavior. As such, the person having ordinary skill in the art would not have been able to ascertain whether or not the applicants were, at the time the application was filed, in possession of the invention as claimed.
Therefore, the claims are rejected for failing to meet the written description requirement of 35 U.S.C. 112(a).
Conclusion
Claims 1-6, 8-13, and 15-19 have been rejected.
Applicant's amendment necessitated the new ground(s) of rejection presented in this Office action. Accordingly, THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL. See MPEP § 706.07(a). Applicant is reminded of the extension of time policy as set forth in 37 CFR 1.136(a).
A shortened statutory period for reply to this final action is set to expire THREE MONTHS from the mailing date of this action. In the event a first reply 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 nonprovisional extension fee (37 CFR 1.17(a)) pursuant to 37 CFR 1.136(a) will be calculated from the mailing date of the advisory action. In no event, however, will the statutory period for reply expire later than SIX MONTHS from the mailing date of this final action.
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/MATTHEW T HENNING/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2491
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