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 . In communications filed on 11/014/2025. Claims 1-2, 5-7, 9-10, 13-15 are amended. Claims 3-4, 8, 11-12, and 16 are cancelled. Claim 17 newly added. Claims 1-2, 5-7, 9-10, and 13-15, and 17 are pending in this examination.
In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status. This examination is in response to US Patent Application No. 18/434,289.
Examiner Note
Applicant’s amendment to claims 1-2, and 9-10 obviates previously raised claim objection.
Applicant’s amendment to claims 2-5, 7-8, 10-13, and 15-16 obviates previously raised claim objection.
Applicant’s amendment to claims 1, and 9 obviates previously raised claims 1-6. U.S.C 35 112(a) first paragraph, and 112(b) second paragraph rejections.
Response to Arguments
Applicant's arguments filed 11/11/2025 have been fully considered but they are not persuasive:
Applicant submits on pages 12-14 of remarks filed on 11/11/2025 that the cited references fail to disclose or suggest all of the features of claim 1.
Examiner respectfully disagrees with applicant argument for claim 1 filed on 11/11/2025 on pages 12-14 of remarks.
Examiner has noticed that all the limitations in claim 1 has been replaced with new limitations, however examiner refers application to claim Rejection-35 USC 112 (a), and 112(b) section below for the issues with the claim 1 limitations.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
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.
Claims 1-2, 5-7, 9-10, and 13-15, and 17 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor, or for pre-AIA the applicant regards as the invention.
The claims 1, and 9 recites “receive a request to generate account information for a second company, wherein the request was transmitted by a first device associated with a first company, and first account information associated with the first company is registered in the memory; obtain historical data associated with the first company from the memory, wherein the historical data indicates a transaction history between the first company and the second company; generate historical information using the historical data; after the historical information is generated, transmit invitation data to the first device, wherein the first device is configured to forward the invitation data to a second device associated with the second company, and the invitation data comprises the historical information; after transmitting the invitation data, receive a digital certificate and a digital signature associated with the second company from the second device; after receiving the digital certificate, verify validity of the digital certificate using a public key of a certificate authority; after receiving the digital signature, verify validity of the digital signature using a public key of the second company, the public key being included in the digital certificate, wherein verifying the validity of the digital signature comprises comparing information obtained from the digital signature with the historical information…”. The underlined limitations, renders the claim indefinite, because they are not clearly defined in the applicant claimed limitations, such as: How the apparatus obtains the historical data? Was there a request send from apparatus to first device to send it historical data which includes its transaction history between the first company and second company? The claim does not claim that the first device with the first company sends all its transaction history to storage in the apparatus, the claims just indicates that the first device has an account registered with the apparatus. What does it mean generate historical information using the historical data? What does it mean the invitation data comprises the historical information? What does it mean comparing information obtained from the digital signature with the historical information? The claim cites that the first device associated with first company, is there a second device or any other device associated with the second company? The specification does not indicate any first device but has many instances of first and second company.
One of ordinary skill in the art would not be reasonably apprised of the scope of the invention, since the intended scope of the invention is not clear. As a result, the metes and bounds of the claim are not clear and the examiner is unable to search for appropriate prior art.
Claims 2, 5-7, 10, and 13-15, and 17 do not cure the deficiency of claims 1, and 9 and are rejected under 35 USC 112, 2nd paragraph, for their dependency upon claims 1, and 9.
Claims 1, and 9 are rejected for the following reason: these claims recite the word” being” which does not indicates performing definite action. Examiner suggest replacing the word “being with “is “or “are” or any other proper wording.
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 1-2, 5-7, 9-10, and 13-15, and 17 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 claims 1, and 9 recites “receive a request to generate account information for a second company, wherein the request was transmitted by a first device associated with a first company, and first account information associated with the first company is registered in the memory; obtain historical data associated with the first company from the memory, wherein the historical data indicates a transaction history between the first company and the second company; generate historical information using the historical data; after the historical information is generated, transmit invitation data to the first device, wherein the first device is configured to forward the invitation data to a second device associated with the second company, and the invitation data comprises the historical information; after transmitting the invitation data, receive a digital certificate and a digital signature associated with the second company from the second device; after receiving the digital certificate, verify validity of the digital certificate using a public key of a certificate authority; after receiving the digital signature, verify validity of the digital signature using a public key of the second company, the public key being included in the digital certificate, wherein verifying the validity of the digital signature comprises comparing information obtained from the digital signature with the historical information…”, 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.
Applicant is kindly requested to show the examiner support in the original disclosure for the new or amended claims. See MPEP 714.02 and 2163.06 (“Applicant should specifically point out the support for any amendments made to the disclosure").
Claims 2, 5-7, 10, and 13-15, and 17 do not cure the deficiency of claims 1, and 9 and are rejected under 35 USC 112, 1st paragraph, for their dependency upon claims 1, and 9.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
See submitted 892 for more relevant references.
ZHAO SHUXIANG (CN110335055A) teaches Summary of the invention
The embodiment of the invention provides a service data traceability method based on a cloud platform, which is used to solve the technical problem that the product quality traceability system of the centralized management is easy to cause leakage of enterprise privacy data, and the method includes: obtaining each product supply chain Business data of the enterprise, wherein the business data includes: enterprise data and product data, and the product data includes at least: a product identification code for uniquely identifying the product; using public key information corresponding to each enterprise and a public corresponding to each product identification code The key information encrypts the business data of each enterprise from two dimensions; stores the encrypted business data of each enterprise in the product supply chain in a chain structure on the cloud platform; decrypts the cloud based on the private key information corresponding to each enterprise The enterprise data associated with each enterprise on the platform, and/or the private key information corresponding to each product identification code, decrypts the enterprise data associated with each product on the cloud platform.
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/SHAHRIAR ZARRINEH/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2496