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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 .
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Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(a)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim(s) 1, 4, 5, 8, 11, 12, 15, 18, 20 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Matsumura (US 2025/0279869)
Regarding Claim 1, 8, 15 and 20, Matsumura teaches a method performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising:
receiving, Downlink Control Information (DCI) comprising a Transmission Configuration Indication (TCI) field that indicates a TCI codepoint where two common TCI states are indicated (¶ [0468], see specifically receives signalling, ¶ [0150], see specifically TCI codepoint, ¶ [0290], see specifically two common TCI states),
or a Media Access Control (MAC) Control Element (CE) that activates only two common TCI states which are mapped to a same TCI codepoint (¶ [0468], see specifically receives signalling and mac CE);
determining, by a processor, a TCI state selected from the two common TCI states for transmission of a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) scheduled or activated by DCI format 0_0 (¶ [0072], see specifically PUSCH scheduled by DCI format 0_0, and ¶ [0430] – [0489], see the various applications of the TCI state) and
transmitting, the PUSCH with the selected TCI state (¶ [0072], see specifically PUSCH scheduled by DCI format 0_0, and ¶ [0430] – [0489], see the various applications of the TCI state)
Regarding Claim 4, 11 and 18, Matsumura teaches the selected TCI state is one of the two common TCI states (¶ [0072], see specifically PUSCH scheduled by DCI format 0_0, and ¶ [0430] – [0489], see the various applications of the TCI state)
Regarding Claims 5 and 12, Matsumura teaches the selected TCI state a first TCI state of the two common TCI states (¶ [0430] – [0489], see the various applications of the TCI state, including applying the first and the second state)
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14, 16, 17 and 19 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
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/ROBERT M MORLAN/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2409
ROBERT M. MORLAN
Primary Examiner
Art Unit 2409
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