DETAILED ACTION
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 .
Response to Amendment
The following is a final office action in response to applicant’s reply, filed on 11/19/2025, to the Non-Final Office Action mailed on 09/05/2025.
Claims 21, 24, 27, 31-34, 37 and 40 are amended. Claims 21-40 are pending and addressed below.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
Claims 21-40 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.
Claim 21 amendment now recites two HARQ process IDs, HARQ process ID for a first period and HARQ process ID for a second period. However, according to the first limitation “receiving, by a first device, from a base station, information related to a configured grant (CG) including information related to a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process ID for the CG and period information related to the CG;”, the first device only receives a single HARQ process ID. Therefore, claim lacks clarity and is indefinite.
Claim 21 amendment expression “HARQ process ID for the first period is the same as the HARQ process ID for a second period” is not understood. It is not clear about the operational relationship between the first period and the second period, and the operational significance of the second period in the claimed invention as the second period and its role in the claim is not clearly defined. Moreover, as the device receives “a HARQ process ID for the CG”, it implies that HARQ process ID is the same during the CG.
Claims 34 and 40 are subjected to the same rejections above as they recite the same limitations.
Other claims are also subjected to the same rejections above due to their dependency on the above rejected claims 21 and 34.
Examiners Note
Applicant is requested to clearly claim the invention for facilitating prior art search.
Response to Arguments
Applicant’s arguments with respect to claim 1 have been considered but are moot because the new ground of rejection does not rely on any reference applied in the prior rejection of record for any teaching or matter specifically challenged in the argument.
Conclusion
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).
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/MAHBUBUL BAR CHOWDHURY/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2475