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 .
Claims 1-4, 8-12 and 16-23 have been examined.
Response to Argument
Applicant’s arguments, on pages 6-9, filed 3/17/26, with respect to the rejection under 35 USC 103 have been fully considered and are persuasive. The 35 USC 103 rejections of claims 1-4, 8-12 and 16-20 have been withdrawn.
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.
The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112:
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 of carrying out his invention.
Claims 1-4, 8-12 and 16-23 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. In specific, independent claims 1 and 17 recite “during a pairing process associated with the pair request, transmit an indication to the service system that the access to the service has been initiated”, and claim 9 recites “during a pairing process associated with the pair request, transmitting an indication to the service system that the access to the service has been initiated”. According to paragraphs 26 and 27 of Applicant’s specification, steps of figure 3 discloses a connection request including a pair process but does not disclose transmitting an acceptance/indication that the access to the service has been initiated to the service system during this pair process. Paragraph 50 of Application’s specification discloses steps of figure 6 including acceptance data is transmitted to the service system, but does not disclose the acceptance data is transmitted during a pair process. Applicant’s specification, at the time the application was filed, does not have support for the limitation. Thus, these claims fail the written description requirement.
Conclusion
THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL. Applicant is reminded of the extension of time policy as set
forth in 37 CFR 1.136(a). A shortened statutory period for reply to this final action is set to expire
THREE MONTHS from the mailing date of this action. In the event a first reply is filed within TWO MONTHS of the mailing date of this final action and the advisory action is not mailed until after the end of the THREE-MONTH shortened statutory period, then the shortened statutory period will expire on the date the advisory action is mailed, and any extension fee pursuant to 37 CFR 1.136(a) will be calculated from the mailing date of the advisory action. In no event, however, will the statutory period for reply expire later than SIX MONTHS from the mailing date of this final action.
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/PHILIP C LEE/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2454
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