DETAILED ACTION
1. The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
2. This Non-Final office action is in response to application 18/202,819, application filed on 05/26/2023. Claims 1-14 are currently pending in this application.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
3. 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.
4. Claims 1, 2, 5, 10 and 12-13 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as failing to set forth 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.
5. With respect to claims 1, 2, 5, 10 and 12-13, said claims recite the term, “dominant components”. This term is indefinite with respect to its intended meaning, as the disclosure fails to describe with specificity, or metes and bounds, what is the meaning of “dominant components”. For example, the disclosure is silent to which components are dominant vs which components are not dominant. Further, Applicant fails to describe “dominant components” in such a way as to ascertain an equivalence in the art. Thus, Applicant is required to address this language upon response to this office action.
6. Claim 3 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as failing to set forth 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.
7. With respect to claim 3, said claims recite the term, “L1norm, or L2norm, or r2”. This phrase is indefinite with respect to its intended meaning, as the disclosure fails to describe with specificity, or metes and bounds, what is the meaning of “L1norm, or L2norm, or r2”. Further, Applicant fails to describe “L1norm, or L2norm, or r2” in such a way as to ascertain an equivalence in the art. Thus, Applicant is required to address this language upon response to this office action.
Allowable Subject Matter
8. Independent claims 1 and 13 might be considered as containing allowable subject matter if rewritten or amended to overcome the rejection(s) under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), 2nd paragraph, set forth in this Office action, as the prior art of record appears to fail to teach the particular combination of limitations as recited in each of independent claims 1 and 13.
9. Claims 4, 6-7, 9, 11 and 14 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if: (1) rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims; and (2) rewritten or amended to overcome the rejection(s) under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), 2nd paragraph, as the prior art of record appears to fail to teach the particular combination of limitations as recited in each of claims 4, 6-7, 9 and 11, respectively
Conclusion
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/SUCHIN PARIHAR/
Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2851
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