DETAILED ACTION
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Status of Claims
The following claim(s) is/are pending in this office action: 1, 3-8, 10-15, 17-20
The following claim(s) is/are amended: 1, 7-8, 14-15, 18, 20
The following claim(s) is/are new: -
The following claim(s) is/are cancelled: -
Claim(s) 1, 3-8, 10-15, 17-20 is/are rejected.
Response to Arguments
Applicant’s arguments filed in the amendment filed 10/22/2025 have been fully considered but are moot in view of new grounds of rejection. The reasons set forth below.
Applicant’s Invention as Claimed
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of 35 U.S.C. 112(a):
(a) IN GENERAL.—The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor or joint inventor of carrying out the invention.
Claim(s) 1, 3-8, 10-15, 17-20 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(a) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), first paragraph, as failing to comply with the written description requirement. The claim(s) contains subject matter which was not described in the specification in such a way as to reasonably convey to one skilled in the relevant art that the inventor or a joint inventor, or for pre-AIA the inventor(s), at the time the application was filed, had possession of the claimed invention. Claim 1 is representative and claims “generating, at the computing device, a verification token derived from the multi- factor authentication data and encrypting the verification token using a session key established for the short-distance wireless communication link to obtain an encrypted verification token, the session key being negotiated directly between the computing device and the registered mobile device without transmission through the server.” Remarks, 10/22/2025 pg. 9 cites Spec, paras. 26-34 and Figs. 3A-3C for support for the amendments. Neither those sections nor anywhere else in the Specification supports “a session key,” nor any key “being negotiated directly between the computing device and the registered mobile device without transmission through the server.” The feature is new matter.
The above cited rejections are merely exemplary.
The Applicant(s) are respectfully requested to correct all similar errors.
Claims not specifically mentioned are rejected by virtue of their dependency.
Conclusion
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/NICHOLAS P CELANI/Examiner, Art Unit 2449