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 .
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statement (IDS) submitted on December 09, 2022 is being considered by the examiner.
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.
Claims 1-20 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 claim 1, line 3, it is unclear where the “location data” being received from?
As per claim 1, line 8, it is unclear where the “plurality of parameters” being
received from?
As per claim 1, line 15, it is unclear that the “user device” being associated with the “first object”? Applicant is required to clarify what “data” being received to meet “a first rule of the rule table”?
As per claims 10 and 19, refer to claim 1 above.
Claims 2-9, 11-18 and 20 should have been rejected for the same reason for their dependency.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 101
35 U.S.C. 101 reads as follows:
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
Reject Claims 1-20 under 35 U.S.C. § 101 as directed to patent-ineligible subject matter.
Claims 1-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to a judicial exception (an abstract idea) without significantly more. The claims are directed to the abstract idea of collecting location information, comparing the information to predetermined rules, and generating alerts—which is a fundamental economic practice, a method of organizing human activity, and a mental process;
The claims do not include additional elements that are sufficient to amount to significantly more than the judicial exception because the additional elements, when considered individually and as an ordered combination, amount to no more than generic computer components performing generic computer functions of receiving, processing, and transmitting data.
Conclusion
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/TAI T NGUYEN/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2685 February 18, 2026