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 Objections
Claims 16-20 are objected to because of the following informalities: Regarding claim 16, it appears that a typo error may occur that claim 16 should depend on claim 13.
Appropriate correction is required.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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 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.
Claims 1-2, 8-9, 13, 15 and 18 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Zhou et al. (US 2024/0236972), hereinafter Zhou.
Regarding claim 1, Zhou discloses the UE 115-b may transmit SPS feedback (e.g., SPS ACK/NACK bits) for each SPS PDSCH 305 via a corresponding PUCCH 315. In some cases, the SPS ACK/NACK bits may conflict (e.g., collide) with downlink symbols from the network entity 105-b. For example, the collided SPS ACK/NACK bits may be carried on a collided PUCCH 315-a (e.g., for SPS config 1) or a collided PUCCH 315-b (e.g., for SPS config 2). The network entity 105-b may transmit control signaling (e.g., RRC signaling) that indicates resources for transmitting the PUCCH 315-a and 315-b are configured for downlink transmissions, and so are no longer available for uplink transmissions. In some cases, the UE 115-b may defer the SPS ACK/NACK bits to the earliest slot that may accommodate the PUCCH 315. The UE 115-b may check slot by slot after the slot with the original collided PUCCH 315 until the UE 115-b finds the first slot that may accommodate the same PUCCH resource as the one that collided, see 0108, 0115, and 0085-0086, 0120 for frequency. The device 805 functions as a UE, see 0184. The device 805-fig.8 comprises a memory, a transceiver and a processor.
Regarding claim 2, the first frequency domain and the second frequency domain are each one of a serving cell of the UE, or a BWP of a serving cell of the UE, see 0061.
Regarding claim 8, this claim has similar limitations as those of claim 1. Therefore, it is rejected under Zhou for the same reasons as set forth in the rejection of claim 1. Zhou discloses in some cases, the collided SPS ACK/NACK bits may be deferred to a target slot (for transmission) if the corresponding selected PUCCH resource (e.g., the PUCCH 225-c) does not overlap with one or more RRC configured downlink symbols or one or more RRC configured flexible symbols that are SSB symbols or CORESET (e.g., a CORESET 0) symbols, see 0106.
Regarding claim 9, this claim has similar limitations as those of claim 2. Therefore, it is rejected under Zhou for the same reasons as set forth in the rejection of claim 2.
Regarding claim 13, this claim has similar limitations as those of claim 1. Therefore, it is rejected under Zhou for the same reasons as set forth in the rejection of claim 1.
Regarding claim 15, this claim has similar limitations as those of claim 2. Therefore, it is rejected under Zhou for the same reasons as set forth in the rejection of claim 2.
Regarding claim 18, this claim has similar limitations as those of claim 8. Therefore, it is rejected under Zhou for the same reasons as set forth in the rejection of claim 8.
Allowable subject matter
5. Claims 3-7, 10-12, 14, 16-17 and 19-20 are each rejected based on its dependency, would be allowable if rewritten or amended to include all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
6. The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. Choi et al. (US 2023/0247627); Yi et al. (US 2022/0361202)
are cited, and considered pertinent to the instant specification.
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/DUC C HO/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2465
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