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 .
DETAILED ACTION
This office action is in response to the application filed on 02/12/2024.
Claims 1-30 are currently pending.
Claims 1-30 are rejected.
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 1-30 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 applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention.
The term “partially” in claim 1 is a relative term which renders the claim indefinite. The term “partially” is not defined by the claim, the specification does not provide a standard for ascertaining the requisite degree, and one of ordinary skill in the art would not be reasonably apprised of the scope of the invention. For instance, Examiner believes one of ordinary skill in the art would not be reasonably apprised of the scope of a partially stored UE location and coverage information. A similar problem exists in claims 6, 19, and 24.
Similar indefiniteness analysis is applied to the claim limitation wherein location and coverage information [is] collected/obtained at least partially, as recited in claims 10, 15, 25, and 30.
The original specification as filed recites the term “partially”, so this is not a 112(a) new matter issue. But the specification does not provide any detail as to how data is partially stored. It is not possible for an examiner to determine the metes and bounds of the claim.
Accordingly, Claims 1, 6, 15, 19, 24-25, 30 are rejected for being vague and indefinite. Dependent claims 2-5, 7-14, 16-18, 20-23, 26-29 are also rejected for depending from rejected base claims.
Supervisor Comment:
The original specification as filed recites the term “partially”, so this is not a 112(a) new matter issue. But the specification does not provide any detail as to how data is partially stored. It is not possible for an examiner to determine the metes and bounds of the claim.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1, 10, 19 and 25 would be allowable 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.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure: Ou (US 20250184828 A1) is pertinent to a method and apparatus for time information of Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) store and forward operation in a wireless communication system.
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/MOHAMED A KAMARA/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2412