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 .
Double Patenting
Claims 1, 10, and 12 are provisionally rejected on the ground of nonstatutory obviousness-type double patenting as being unpatentable over claim 3 of copending U.S. Application No. 18/865,169. Although the instant claims and claim 3 of the copending application are not identical, they are not patentably distinct. Claim 3 of the copending application recites the same substantive sensing measurement parameter element functionality, including the use of a field/value indication associated with trigger-based (TB) and non-TB sensing measurement parameters. To the extent instant claims 10 and 12 further recite a station comprising a transceiver and a processor, such limitations do not provide a patentable distinction because a WLAN station necessarily uses transceiver circuitry to transmit and receive frames between stations and processing circuitry to process the sensing measurement parameter element and perform the claimed sensing measurement operations. Accordingly, the instant claims merely recite an obvious apparatus implementation of the same sensing measurement parameter-element arrangement claimed in the copending application.
Conclusion
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/HELAL A ALGAHAIM/SPE , Art Unit 3645
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