CTNF 18/763,050 CTNF 78674 Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status 07-03-aia AIA 15-10-aia 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 § 102 07-07-aia AIA 07-07 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 – 07-12-aia AIA (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. 07-15-03-aia AIA Claim(s) 1 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Wu US 20230276468 . Regarding claims 1, 15-18, Wu teaches a communication method performed by a user equipment in a mobile communication system for providing a multicast and broadcast service (MBS), the communication method ([0073]) comprising: receiving, from a network node, a broadcast message including information for determining whether the user equipment is allowed to transmit, to the network node, an MBS interest indication regarding an MBS session (the UE 102 receives MBS configuration(s) and/or MBS control information on broadcast channel (BCCH), [0072], the DU 174 or the CU 172 can indicate, in the MBS configuration(s) and/or MBS control information, that a UE (e.g., the UE 102 ) is allowed to transmit an MBS interest indication, [0073]); and determining whether to perform transmission processing of the MBS interest indication based on the information (the MBS configuration(s) and/or MBS control information, that a UE (e.g., the UE 102 ) is allowed to transmit an MBS interest indication. If the DU 174 or the CU 172 indicates, in the MBS configuration(s) and/or MBS control information, that a UE (e.g., the UE 102 ) is not allowed to transmit an MBS interest indication, the UE 102 does not transmit the first MBS interest indication at event 304 A, [0073]). Regarding claim 2, the information is configuration information configuring a condition under which the user equipment is permitted to transmit, to the network node, the MBS interest indication (the DU 174 or the CU 172 can indicate, in the MBS configuration(s), that a UE (e.g., the UE 102 ) is allowed to transmit an MBS interest indication. If the DU 174 or the CU 172 indicates, in the MBS configuration(s) and/or MBS control information, that a UE (e.g., the UE 102 ) is not allowed to transmit an MBS interest indication, [0073]). Regarding claim 3, not performing the transmission processing when the condition configured by the configuration information is not satisfied and performing the transmission processing in response to the condition configured by the configuration information being satisfied (the DU 174 or the CU 172 can indicate, in the MBS configuration(s), that a UE (e.g., the UE 102 ) is allowed to transmit an MBS interest indication. If the DU 174 or the CU 172 indicates, in the MBS configuration(s) and/or MBS control information, that a UE (e.g., the UE 102 ) is not allowed to transmit an MBS interest indication, [0073]) . Allowable Subject Matter 12-151-08 AIA 07-43 12-51-08 Claim s 4-14 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. 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