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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 .
Continued Examination Under 37 CFR 1.114
A request for continued examination under 37 CFR 1.114, including the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(e), was filed in this application after final rejection. Since this application is eligible for continued examination under 37 CFR 1.114, and the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(e) has been timely paid, the finality of the previous Office action has been withdrawn pursuant to 37 CFR 1.114. Applicant's submission filed on January 21, 2026 has been entered.
Response to Arguments
Applicant’s arguments, see Applicants’ remarks, filed January 21, 2026, with respect to the rejection(s) of claim(s) 1, 3 under 35 U.S.C. 103 have been fully considered and are persuasive. Therefore, the rejection has been withdrawn. However, upon further consideration, a new ground(s) of rejection is made in view of Shirasaki (JP 2019029741A).
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(a)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim(s) 1, 3 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Shirasaki (JP 2019029741A)
Regarding Claim 1, Shirasaki teaches a mobile terminal test system that executes a test of a test case in a conformance test defined by a 3GPP standard of a mobile terminal, the mobile terminal test system comprising: a test case selection unit that selects a plurality of test cases (Sections 0046, 0047, scenarios for pseudo base stations are the test cases, the entity that facilitates the selection of said scenarios reads on the test case selection); a common parameter extraction unit that extracts common parameters having the same parameter type, among a plurality of parameters included in the plurality of test cases selected by the test case selection unit, as a plurality of common parameters (Section 0051, the values displayed in the primary cell display setting section and the secondary cell display setting session are the common parameters, the entity that facilitates values to be sent for display in the display setting sections reads on the extraction unit); a common parameter display control unit that displays a list of the plurality of common parameters extracted by the common parameter extraction unit on a display unit (Section 0051, the display setting sections); a common parameter change input unit that inputs a change value of a set value of each of the plurality of common parameters (Section 0051, changing contents of primary and secondary display sections, entity that facilitates said changing reads on the common parameter change input unit); a common parameter setting unit that collectively sets the respective change values input by the common parameter change input unit to each of the corresponding common parameters of the plurality of common parameters in each of the selected plurality of test cases (Section 0051, there can be changing of contents of primary and secondary display sections thus rendering a scenario of setting respective values that are input thus there will be an entity that conducts said setting); a test execution unit that executes a test of the plurality of selected test cases, by using the plurality of common parameters set by the common parameter setting unit (Section 0051, there can be changing of contents of primary and secondary display sections thus rendering a scenario of setting respective values that are input thus there will be an entity that conducts said setting, this can be used for testing in the different scenarios (Sections 0046, 0047)), and a test case designation unit that designates, among the plurality of selected test cases, a test case for setting the change value to the common parameter by the common parameter setting unit (Section 0051, there can be changing of contents of primary and secondary display sections thus rendering a scenario of setting respective values that are input thus there will be an entity that conducts said setting, this can be used for testing in the different scenarios (Sections 0046, 0047) and thus designated for the different scenarios).
Regarding Claim 3, Shirasaki teaches a mobile terminal test method of executing a test of a test case in a conformance test defined by a 3GPP standard of a mobile terminal, the method comprising: a test case selection step of selecting a plurality of test cases (Sections 0046, 0047, scenarios for pseudo base stations are the test cases, there will be a step that facilitates the selection of said scenarios); a common parameter extraction step of extracting common parameters having the same type, among a plurality of parameters included in the plurality of test cases selected in the test case selection step, as a plurality of common parameters (Section 0051, the values displayed in the primary cell display setting section and the secondary cell display setting session are the common parameters, there will be a step that facilitates values to be sent for display in the display setting sections); a common parameter display step of displaying a list of the plurality of common parameters extracted in the common parameter extraction step on a display unit (Section 0051, the display setting sections); a common parameter change input step of inputting a change value of a set value of each of the plurality of common parameters (Section 0051, changing contents of primary and secondary display sections, there will be a step that facilitates said changing); a common parameter setting step of collectively setting the respective change values input in the common parameter change input step to each of the corresponding common parameters of the plurality of common parameters in each of the selected plurality of test cases (Section 0051, there can be changing of contents of primary and secondary display sections thus rendering a scenario of setting respective values that are input thus there will be a step that conducts said setting); and a test execution step of executing a test of the plurality of selected test cases, by using the plurality of common parameters set in the common parameter setting step (Section 0051, there can be changing of contents of primary and secondary display sections thus rendering a scenario of setting respective values that are input thus there will be a step that conducts said setting, this can be used for testing in the different scenarios (Sections 0046, 0047)), wherein the common parameter setting step further includes a step of designating, among the plurality of selected test cases, a test case for setting the change value to the common parameter (Section 0051, there can be changing of contents of primary and secondary display sections thus rendering a scenario of setting respective values that are input thus there will be a step that conducts said setting, this can be used for testing in the different scenarios (Sections 0046, 0047) and thus designated for the different scenarios).
Conclusion
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/RAYMOND S DEAN/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2645 Raymond S. Dean
February 10, 2026