DETAILED ACTION
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 .
Response to Amendment
This office action has been changed in response to the amendment filed on 1/30/2026.
Claims 1, 16 and 23 have been amended. Claims 8 and 13-15 have been canceled.
The Examiner left a voicemail on 2/18/2026 in an attempt to rectify the following rejection, but was unable to get a response within the bounds required by the PPH program.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claims 1, 16 and 23 each recites the limitation "after configuring the first cell”. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim. It appears this should read “after configuring the cause cell with the highest number of occurrences in the list” to properly refer back to the cause cell having a parameter changed. To retain “the first cell”, claim 6 would be required to be incorporated into the independent claims along with additional clarity to separate the “at least two first cells” into “at least a first cell and a second first cell”.
Claims 2-7, 9-12 and 17-22 are rejected for inheriting the deficiency of independent claims 1 or 16 above and failing to correct the deficiency.
Additionally, the Examiner suggest “configuring, by the apparatus, the cause cell with the highest number of occurrences to use a second cell parameter value, wherein the highest number of occurrences is at least two conflicts for the cause cell with different first cells” to clarify that the cause cell is interfering with two different cells (not just the cause cell and the interfering cell).
Finally, the Examiner suggests “determining by the apparatus, after configuring the cause cell with the highest number of occurrences in the list to use the second cell parameter value, whether a second cause cell in the list needs to be configured to use a third cell parameter”.
Conclusion
THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL. Applicant is reminded of the extension of time policy as set forth in 37 CFR 1.136(a).
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/Matthew C Sams/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2646