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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 .
Information Disclosure Statement
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Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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)(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 and 6 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by US Patent Application Publication No. 20200195414 (Nguyen et al).
Regarding claim 1, Nguyen et al. discloses: “a terminal (FIG. 6: 602; [0087]: “The apparatus 602 may be a device, e.g., a UE, an RSU, or a base station, that may be capable of transmitting and receiving based on two different RATs”) comprising: a communication unit configured to perform transmission and reception in a first RAT (Radio Access Technology) (FIG. 6: 602, 604, 606; [0087]: “The apparatus comprises a reception component 604 configured to receive”; “The apparatus 602 includes a transmission component 606 configured to transmit”); and a control unit configured to control communications in the first RAT (FIG. 6: 602, 608; [0087]: ”The apparatus 602 includes a first RAT component 608 that is configured to receive communication and transmit communication with device 650, e.g., based on the first RAT”), wherein the control unit does not support a function related to dynamic resource sharing ([0058]: “LTE V2X communication and NR V2X communication may be configured in a semi-static manner and may be configured in different resource pools in frequency and/or time in order to avoid overlapping transmissions. Such a semi-static configuration using different resource pools may avoid overlapping transmissions without coordination between the LTE components and the NR components”) between the first RAT ([0058]: “NR V2X”) and a second RAT ([0058]: “LTE V2X”), and controls an operation related to using resource pools for which a function related to resource sharing between the first RAT and the second RAT is configured” ([0058]: “overlapping transmission with one RAT and reception with another RAT can be avoided without requiring communication between LTE components and NR components to coordinate transmission/reception”).
With respect to Claim 6, Nguyen et al. discloses: “a communication method performed by a terminal (FIG. 5: UE 104b; [0075]: FIG. 5 is a flowchart 500 of a method of wireless communication. The method may be performed by a transmitting device/receiving device”), the communication method comprising: performing transmission and reception in a first RAT (Radio Access Technology) (FIG. 6: 602; [0087]: “The apparatus 602 may be a device, e.g., a UE, an RSU, or a base station, that may be capable of transmitting and receiving based on two different RATs”); controlling communications in the first RAT (FIG. 6: 602, 604, 606; [0087]: “The apparatus comprises a reception component 604 configured to receive”; “The apparatus 602 includes a transmission component 606 configured to transmit”); and not supporting a function related to dynamic resource sharing between the first RAT and a second RAT ([0058]: “LTE V2X communication and NR V2X communication may be configured in a semi-static manner and may be configured in different resource pools in frequency and/or time in order to avoid overlapping transmissions. Such a semi-static configuration using different resource pools may avoid overlapping transmissions without coordination between the LTE components and the NR components”), and controlling an operation related to using resource pools for which a function related to resource sharing between the first RAT ([0058]: “NR V2X”) and the second RAT ([0058]: “LTE V2X”) is configured” ([0058]: “overlapping transmission with one RAT and reception with another RAT can be avoided without requiring communication between LTE components and NR components to coordinate transmission/reception”).
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
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.
Claim 4 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over in view of Nguyen et al. in view of “Discussion on co-channel coexistence for LTE sidelink and NR sidelink”, 3GPP TSG RAN WG1 Meeting #109-e, R1-2204652, e-Meeting, May 9th – 20th, 2022”, (ETRI).
Claim 4 is dependent upon claim 1. As discussed above, claim 1 is disclosed by Nguyen et al. Thus, those limitations of claim 1 that are recited in claim 4 are also disclosed by Nguyen et al.
However, Nguyen et al. does not clearly disclose the remaining limitations of the claims. To that end, with respect to Claim 4, ETRI discloses: “the control unit uses, in the resource pool, a parameter related to sensing that is different from a parameter related to a terminal that supports the function related to dynamic resource sharing between the first RAT and the second RAT” (Pg. 1, Section 2, line 7 to Pg. 2, Section 2, line 1: “Alt 1: Resource pool separation between the two RATS”; Page1, section 2, line 15: “simplest solution could be resource pool separation between two RATS in a static manner i.e., Alt. 1”). It is respectfully submitted that it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time of the invention to combine Nguyen et al. with ETRI since both use “semi-static” or “static” resource pools rather than dynamic resource pool sharing (see ETRI @ Pg. 2, Section 2, line 1).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2, 3 and 5 are 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.
Conclusion
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/Myron Wyche/ 15 August 2026
Primary Examiner AU2644
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