CTNF 18/842,190 CTNF 92279 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. Information Disclosure Statement 06-52 The information disclosure statement (IDS) submitted on 08/28/2024 was filed with the instant application. The submission is in compliance with the provisions of 37 CFR 1.97. Accordingly, the information disclosure statement is being considered by the examiner. 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 – 07-08-aia AIA (a)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention. 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 1 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102 (a)(2) as being anticipated by Zhu et al (US 2023/0189238 A1), hereinafter, “Zhu” . Regarding claim 1, Zhu discloses: A method performed by a User Equipment, UE, for transmission using two activated/indicated unified Transmission Configuration Indication, TCI, states (Zhu: fig 9-10, para [0007] and para [0107], where, describes methods of the association/mapping between the N>1 (i.e. two or more) TCI states/beams indicated in the MAC CE command for beam indication) the method comprising at least one of: Examiner’s Note: The examiner choose “receiving a configuration of a plurality of unified TCI states and a first and a second Sounding Reference Signal, SRS, resource sets, where the first and the second SRS resource sets are for either codebook based or non-codebook based usage” for rejection: receiving a configuration of a plurality of unified TCI states (Zhu: fig 9-10, para [0021]-[0022] and para [0097], where, “the UE could receive from the network a single MAC CE command for beam indication to indicate M>1 Rel. 17 unified TCI states/beams (e.g., M>1 joint DL and UL TCI states or M>1 separate UL TCI states) for the same PUSCH(s)/PUCCH(s) transmitted to/associated with different TRPs in the multi-TRP system”) and a first and a second Sounding Reference Signal, SRS, resource sets (Zhu: fig 9-10, para [00251], where, “srs-ResourceSetToAddModList or srs-ResourceSetToAddModListDCI-0-2” equivalent to “first SRS” and “SRS-ResourceSet set to “codebook” or “noncodebook,” for PUSCH repetition Type A” equivalent to “second SRS”)) , where the first and the second SRS resource sets are for either codebook based or non-codebook based usage (Zhu: fig 9-10, para [00251], where, “when two SRS resource sets are configured in srs-ResourceSetToAddModList or srs-ResourceSetToAddModListDCI-0-2 with higher layer parameter usage in SRS-ResourceSet set to “codebook” or “noncodebook,” for PUSCH repetition Type A”) ; [[ receiving a first Downlink Control Information, DCI, that activates/indicates a first and a second unified TCI states out of the plurality of unified TCI states for uplink channels; receiving a second DCI that schedules one of: (a) a first uplink transmission in a first set of transmission occasions associated to the first SRS resource set; (b) a second uplink transmission in a second set of transmission occasions associated to the second SRS resource set, and (c) a first and a second uplink transmissions in a first set and a second set of transmission occasions, respectively; ]] , NOT CONSIDERED FOR REJECTION and performing at least one of: (i) applying the first unified TCI state to the uplink channel transmission in the first set of transmission occasions (Zhu: fig 9-10, para [0120], where, “unified TCI states/beams (e.g., M>1 joint DL and UL TCI states or M>1 separate UL TCI states) for the same PUSCH(s)/PUCCH(s) transmitted to/associated with different TRPs in the multi-TRP system”); [[ (ii) applying the second unified TCI state to the uplink channel transmission in the second set of transmission occasions; and (iii) applying the first and the second unified TCI states to the uplink channel transmission in the first set and the second set of transmission occasions, respectively. ]] , NOT CONSIDERED FOR REJECTION Conclusion Any inquiry concerning this communication or earlier communications from the examiner should be directed to NIZAM U AHMED whose telephone number is (571)272-9561. 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