DETAILED ACTION
Claims 1-20 are pending in this application.
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 § 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 1-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as failing to set forth 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. Evidence that claims 1, 8 and 15 fail(s) to correspond in scope with that which the inventor or a joint inventor, or for pre-AIA applications the applicant regards as the invention can be found in the reply filed 08/29/25. In that paper, the inventor or a joint inventor, or for pre-AIA applications the applicant has stated “…in response to determining that the first user has left the shared channel, ceasing to display first information associated with the shared channel to the first user; receiving a second request to add a second user associated with the first group or the second group to the shared channel; in response to receiving the second request, adding the second user to the shared channel such that the shared channel is accessible to the second user ; receiving, via a user interface of the group-based communication platform presented via a client of the second user, a third request to view the shared channel; and in response to receiving the third request and based at least in part on the second user being added to the shared channel, causing second information associated with the shared channel to be displayed to the second user, wherein the second information includes first messages posted to the shared channel prior to the second user being added to the shared channel and second messages posted to the shared channel after the second user was added to the shared channel…”, and this statement indicates that the invention is different from what is defined in the claims 1, 8 and 15) because:
Firstly, none of the disclosure and figures describe or disclose a sequential process steps of carrying out this invention as claimed.
The instant disclosure discloses “creating/generating shared resources/channels” among other paragraphs on (paragraphs 0023/0026/0027/0038/0060/0081/00830123/0143/0144/0150/0152/0153/0161/0165-0167/0170/0179/0174/0182/0186/0193/0197/0206/0207/0211/0212/0223/0224/0228/0228-0230/0246-0248/0253/0254/0256/0320/0321/0338/0365/0369/0371/0374/0381), however, the disclosure and the figures do not disclose sequential process steps of “…in response to determining that the first user has left the shared channel, ceasing to display first information…”, “…receiving a second request to add a second user…”, “…in response to receiving the second request, adding the second user to the shared channel…”, “…receiving, via a user interface of the group-based communication platform presented via a client of the second user, a third request to view the shared channel…”, and “…in response to receiving the third request and based at least in part on the second user being added to the shared channel, causing second information associated with the shared channel to be displayed to the second user, wherein the second information includes first messages posted to the shared channel prior to the second user being added to the shared channel and second messages posted to the shared channel after the second user was added to the shared channel…”
Claim 2-7, 9-14 and 16-20 are rejected for the same reason as claims 1, 8 and 15 respectively.
NOTE: No prior art is included or applied in this rejection, so if Applicant could satisfactorily address the above rejection the Examiner would be open to allowing the invention as claimed.
Response to Arguments
Applicant's arguments filed 01/06/26 have been fully considered but they are not persuasive.
To address Examiner’s concern (112(b) rejection) Applicants pointed to figures 1, 5, 7, 10, 20A, 24 and 25. Of these figures, only figures 20A and 25 are directed to method or steps of carrying out the invention.
In figure 20A, the steps 2002, 2004, 2008 and 2010 do not match at least the steps of claim 1.
In figure 25, the steps 2503, 2505,02507, and 2509 do not match at least the steps of claim 1.
The other figures are not directed to a method/steps (sequential process steps of)
For at least this reason, the Examiner would continue to maintain the rejection.
Conclusion
Applicant's amendment necessitated the new ground(s) of rejection presented in this Office action. Accordingly, THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL. See MPEP § 706.07(a). Applicant is reminded of the extension of time policy as set forth in 37 CFR 1.136(a).
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/CHARLES E ANYA/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2194
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