CTNF 18/838,516 CTNF 76525 DETAILED ACTION 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 1-3 and 5-6 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Jang et al (2023/0217442) . Regarding claims 1 and 5, Jang discloses a terminal and a method performed by the terminal (see terminal in figure 36) comprising: a receiving section that receives configuration information including a configuration related to a transmission configuration indication (TCI) state to be applied to a plurality of types of channels and indication of the TCI state, a TCI field codepoint included in the indication being associated with a plurality of the TCI states; and a control section that determines, based on information related to application initiation timing of the TCI state included in the configuration information and the indication, the application initiation timing of the TCI state (see A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a receiving section that receives configuration information including a configuration related to a transmission configuration indication (TCI) state to be applied to a plurality of types of channels and indication of the TCI state, a TCI field codepoint included in the indication being associated with a plurality of the TCI states; and a control section that determines, based on information related to application initiation timing of the TCI state included in the configuration information and the indication, the application initiation timing of the TCI state in paragraph 0008). Regarding claim 2, Jang discloses wherein the configuration information includes information related to first application initiation timing corresponding to a first TCI state among the plurality of TCI states and information related to second application initiation timing corresponding to a second TCI state of the plurality of TCI states, when the first TCI state is to be applied, the control section determines the application initiation timing of the first TCI state, based on the information related to the first application initiation timing, and when the second TCI state is to be applied, the control section determines the application initiation timing of the second TCI state, based on the information related to the first application initiation timing and the information related to the second application initiation timing (see the UE receives beam indication DCI indicating a TCI codepoint “000.” In this case, the UE determines that initiation of application of a first TCI state (TCI #0) is timing after the elapse of BAT #1 from transmission of HARQ-ACK related to beam indication DCI. The UE determines that initiation of application of a second TCI state (TCI #1) is timing after the elapse of BAT #2 from transmission of HARQ-ACK related to beam indication DCI in paragraph 0437. See also paragraphs 0296, 0365, and 0415 for a first TCI state and a second TCI state of the plurality of TCI states). Regarding claim 3, Jang discloses wherein the configuration information is a Medium Access Control control element (MAC Control Element (CE)), and the MAC CE activates TCI states included in a pair or a combination of the TCI states the number of which is a specific number at maximum (see it is studied to use a TCI state field (TCI field, 3 bits at maximum) included in a DCI format (for example, DCI format 1_1/1_2 without/with DL assignment) to indicate one or more TCI states (common TCI state(s)), for a UE in paragraphs 0150; A UE may receive an activation command (MAC CE) corresponding to a combination/pair of a specific number of (for example, X at maximum) TCI states in paragraph 0448). Regarding claim 6, claim 6 claims a base station that is in communication with the terminal claimed in claim 1 where the process is reversed. Claim 6 is, therefore, subject to the same rejection . Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103 07-20-aia AIA 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. 07-21-aia AIA Claim 4 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Jang . Regarding claim 4, Jang doesn't specifically disclose the control section does not assume reception of at least one of indication related to application initiation timing having a value larger than a maximum value related to the application initiation timing and indication related to application initiation timing having a value smaller than a minimum value related to the application initiation timing. However, does not assume or assume something happening or not happening is obvious and is matter of choice. Therefore, it would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art at the time the inventio was made to assume something is happening or not happening to order to meet specific needs. Conclusion Any inquiry concerning this communication or earlier communications from the examiner should be directed to BRIAN D NGUYEN whose telephone number is (571)272-3084. The examiner can normally be reached Monday-Friday 8:00 - 4:30. 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