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. 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. Claims 1-2, 4, 6-9, 11, 13-16, 18, 20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102 (a)(1) as being anticipated by Xiang (US Pub. 20210264321 A1) . Xiang discloses the following limitations: 1. A method comprising: providing a first machine learning model to a collaboration platform ( para. 15 ) ; receiving a second machine learning model from the collaboration platform that indicates the second machine learning model is based on the first machine learning model ( para. 16 ) ; testing, by a processing device, the second machine learning model using criteria corresponding to the first machine learning model to determine whether the second machine learning model is valid ( para. 18 ) ; and publishing the second machine learning model to a repository in response to determining that the second machine learning model is valid. ( para . 18-19 ) 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first machine learning model is trained prior to being provided to the collaboration platform, the method further comprising: providing a manifest corresponding to the first machine learning model to the collaboration platform, wherein the manifest comprises one or more training parameters for a trainer system to retrain the first machine learning model to produce the second machine learning model. ( para . 44 ) 4. The method of claim 2, wherein the method is performed by a coordinator system, and wherein the coordinator system and the trainer system are controlled by separate entities. ( Fig. 1 and associated paras. ) 6. The method of claim 1, further comprising: in response to determining that the second machine learning model is invalid, sending an error message to the collaboration platform. ( para . 40 ) 7. The method of claim 1, wherein the method incorporates machine learning operations ( MLOps ), and wherein the collaboration platform is a GitHub platform that incorporates Git operations ( GitOps ). ( para . 31 ) Regarding claims 8-9, 11, 13-14, they are rejected as applied to claims 1-2, 4, 6-7 because a corresponding system would have been necessitated to carry forth the method steps of claims 1-2, 4, 6-7 . The applied prior art also discloses the corresponding architecture. ( Fig. 1 ) Regarding claims 15-16, 18, 20, they recites a computer program that when executed, performs the functional steps of method claims 1-2, 4, 6, and thus, rejected for the same rationale. ( para . 67, 70 ) Claim Objections Claims 3, 5, 10, 12, 17 and 19 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims. 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