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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 .
This is response to Application 17/786,372 filed on 06/16/2022 with Preliminary Amendment. Claims 7-12 are pending in the office action.
Claims 1-6 have been canceled.
Claims 10-12 are newly added.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claim 7 and 9-12 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor (or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention.
As per claims 7 and 9, the limitations “time series data” is unclear describe either from the claim language and application specification, for example, the language of application’s specification, paragraphs [0013] [0017] [0020] [0024], is very much similar repeat from the claim language which is unclear description.
The application’s specification, paragraph [0076] described: “it is possible to obtain frequency distribution of the intermediate conductance by Fourier transformation of time series data of the intermediate level conductance, and to identify distribution of the rotation angle θ based on the obtained frequency distribution” and
The application’s specification, paragraph [0094], described “the quantum gate preparation unit 41 obtains time series data of the intermediate level conductance for the known single molecule 22 from the conductance measurement unit 15, and uses the time series data to identify distribution of rotation angle θ of a unitary gate U(θ) included in the quantum gates”.
Entire of application specification describes “identify distribution of rotation angle θ of a unitary gate U(θ)”, but does not define/describe what is/are “time series data”, Hence, one of ordinary skill in the art would not enable to use “time series data” to identify distribution of rotation angle θ of a unitary gate U(θ).
The definition of “time series data” per Time series - Wikipedia
“In mathematics, a time series is a series of data points indexed (or listed or graphed) in time order. Most commonly, a time series is a sequence taken at successive equally spaced points in time. Thus it is a sequence of discrete-time data. Examples of time series are heights of ocean tides, counts of sunspots, and the daily closing value of the Dow Jones Industrial Average”, but sound like unrelated to the claim language.
Hence, either from application specification or definition in Wikipedia, one of ordinary skill in the art would not be able to process the step (per claim 7) “encoding into a quantum bit array based on time series data of the tunneling current” or (per claim 9) “encoding time series data of the tunneling current into a quantum bit array”
As per claim 10-12: are also rejected because are depended directly or indirectly from claim 7.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made.
Claim(s) 8 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Kabakchiev et al., (U.S. Pub. 2016/0314867) in view of Blais et al. (U.S. Pub. 20030173997).
As per claim 8: Kabakchiev teaches a method for detecting quantum entanglement, said method comprising the steps of:
detecting a tunneling current which flows between a plurality of electrodes (i.e., first and second electrode) via a molecule or a part of the molecule provided between the plurality of electrodes (‘867, par. [0014], [0062] [0063], a tunneling current can flow between first and second electrode 3 and 5, see fig. 1-2, and also see par. [0076], tunneling current being present (i.e., detecting)); and
the tunneling current is at an intermediate level between a high level and a low level (‘867, par. 65, see fig. 1, (high) energy level of quantum state 17 and (low) energy level of quantum state 19, and intermediate (different) energy level 27 (broken line) and tunneling junction 25 between quantum systems 15 and 13 corresponding to electrodes 3 and 5 as fig. 3 and 4 and also see par. [0027] change the energy level and tunneling current).
Kabakchiev does not teaches the step determining that a quantum entanglement state is occurring.
Blais teaches a method for entangling and controlling qubit (‘997, the abstract and par. [0011]). The method for performing an entanglement operation between a heterogeneous pair of qubits, wherein a heterogeneous pair of qubits includes a phase qubit and a charge qubit, includes coupling the pair using a coupling mechanism for some duration t of the entanglement operation correlates with the tunneling amplitude of one of the qubits of the heterogeneous (‘997, par. [0102] [0103], and also see fig. 4, charge device 120 can be a charge qubit and phase devices 500-1 to 500-N can be phase qubits, the state of respective phase qubit becomes entangled with the state of charge qubit 120, which includes tunnel junction 120-1 and 120-2).
It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time of the effective filling date of claimed invention to combine Blais and Kabakchiev using Blais’s method for performing an entanglement operation in Kabakchiev’s tunnel junction between electrodes 3 and 5 and Blais the tunnel junctions 120-1 and 120-1 for building efficient quantum registers where decohence and other sources of noise are minimized but where scalability is improved (‘997, par. [0010]).
Conclusion
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NGHIA M. DOAN
Primary Examiner
Art Unit 2851
/NGHIA M DOAN/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2851
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