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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 .
1. This action is responsive to restriction election received March 24, 2026. Claim 14 was elected without traverse. Restriction is made FINAL.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
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 (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) 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.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made.
2. Claims 14 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Wang et al., U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2020/0319350 (referred to hereafter as Wang) in view of Rogers et al., U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2021/0078736 (referred to hereafter as Rogers).
As to claim 14, Wang teaches a satellite information transmission system comprising:
a critical infrastructure including an infrastructure satellite cluster including infrastructure satellites to fly in a cislunar space that is a space between the moon and the earth or beyond the moon, to form social infrastructure, and to put a service into practice (see fig. 2, para. 54-55, 57, DRO flies in cislunar space); and
a ground installation installed on ground to exchange information with the infrastructure satellite cluster and to operate the infrastructure satellite cluster, wherein the infrastructure satellite cluster includes a cislunar data relay satellite to relay communication between a space object flying in a near-moon orbit and the ground (see fig. 2, para. 54-55, 57, DRO communicates with ground station using GEO and MEO),
the infrastructure satellite exchanges satellite information with the cislunar satellite, and the cislunar satellite exchanges the satellite information with the ground installation via the cislunar data relay satellite (see fig. 2, para. 54-55, 57, DRO flies in cislunar space).
Wang does not explicitly teach that the infrastructure satellite exchanges satellite information with the cislunar satellite wherein the cislunar satellite is a freighter and
the critical infrastructure includes a cislunar freighter that has a consolidated environment of communication with the cislunar data relay satellite and that transports commodities to the cislunar space,
the cislunar freighter transports the infrastructure satellite to the cislunar space and thereafter releases the infrastructure satellite.
However, Rogers teaches a freighter satellite wherein a cislunar freighter that has a consolidated environment of communication with the cislunar data relay satellite and that transports commodities to the cislunar space,
the cislunar freighter transports the infrastructure satellite to the cislunar space and thereafter releases the infrastructure satellite (see para. 13-14, 32 and 37-38).
It would have been obvious for one of the ordinary skill in the at the effective filling data of the application use a freighter satellite wherein a cislunar freighter that has a consolidated environment of communication with the cislunar data relay satellite and that transports commodities to the cislunar space, the cislunar freighter transports the infrastructure satellite to the cislunar space and thereafter releases the infrastructure satellite in Wang as taught by Rogers. Motivation to do so comes from the teachings of Wang that doing so would allow the freighter to move satellites/spaceships from a lower orbit to a lunar orbit in an efficient manner.
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/HUSSEIN ELCHANTI/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3669
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