Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application is being examined under the pre-AIA first to invent provisions.
DETAILED ACTION
Response to Amendment
This Office Action is in response to the amendment filed on 12/29/25.
The applicant’s remarks and amendments to the claims were considered and results as
follow: THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL.
Claims 1 and 11 have been amended. No claims have been cancelled. No claims have been added. As a result, claims 1-20 now pending in this office action.
Applicant’s amendment to claims 1 and 11 with respect to the rejection of
claims under 35 U.S.C. 101 has been fully considered. The amendment has properly
overcome the rejection. Therefore, the rejection has been withdrawn.
Double Patenting
The nonstatutory double patenting rejection is based on a judicially created doctrine grounded in public policy (a policy reflected in the statute) so as to prevent the unjustified or improper timewise extension of the “right to exclude” granted by a patent and to prevent possible harassment by multiple assignees. A nonstatutory double patenting rejection is appropriate where the conflicting claims are not identical, but at least one examined application claim is not patentably distinct from the reference claim(s) because the examined application claim is either anticipated by, or would have been obvious over, the reference claim(s). See, e.g., In re Berg, 140 F.3d 1428, 46 USPQ2d 1226 (Fed. Cir. 1998); In re Goodman, 11 F.3d 1046, 29 USPQ2d 2010 (Fed. Cir. 1993); In re Longi, 759 F.2d 887, 225 USPQ 645 (Fed. Cir. 1985); In re Van Ornum, 686 F.2d 937, 214 USPQ 761 (CCPA 1982); In re Vogel, 422 F.2d 438, 164 USPQ 619 (CCPA 1970); In re Thorington, 418 F.2d 528, 163 USPQ 644 (CCPA 1969).
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4. Claim 1-20 is rejected on the ground of nonstatutory double patenting as being
unpatentable over claim 33-51 of Patent no. 11,809,388. Although the conflicting claims are not identical, they are not patentably distinct from each other because claims 33-51 of Patent no. 11,809,388 contains every element of claim 1-20 of the instant application no. 18/882,946 and as such anticipates claim 1-20 of the instant application No. 18/882,946.
Both claim features of the instant application No. 18/882,946 and Patent No.
11,809,388 can be compared as follows:
Instant Application 18/882,946
Patent no. 11,809,388
1. 1. A system for evaluating a knowledge representation generated by a synthesis engine and context information associated with a data consumer, the system comprising: at least one non-transitory memory, and at least one processor configured to: receive from the synthesis engine the knowledge representation encoded as computer-readable data stored on non-transitory memory and the context information; derive from the knowledge representation and the context information a data consumer model associated with the data consumer, the data consumer model encoded as computer-readable data stored on non-transitory memory; analyze, via rule-based processing; analyze the data consumer model to deconstruct data into a first set of elemental components, wherein the first set of elemental components includes a first plurality of elemental concepts and a first plurality of elemental concept relationships; retrieve, from reference data encoded as computer-readable data stored on non-transitory memory, content relevant to the first set of elemental components using terms associated with the plurality of elemental concepts; analyze the retrieved content to deconstruct the retrieved content into a second set of elemental components, wherein the second set of elemental components includes a second plurality of elemental concepts and a second plurality of elemental concept relationships; estimate, using elemental inference rules executed by the processor, joint probabilities associated with the first set of elemental components and the second set of elemental components wherein the elemental data structure is composed of at least a universal kernel of concepts and concept relationships generally applicable to a population of data consumers; and compute, using the estimated joint probabilities, compute an indicator relating to the first set of elemental components and the second set of element components.
33. A system for supporting machine-based inductive reasoning to predict new complex knowledge representations encoded as computer-readable data and stored on one or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable storage media, the system comprising: an atomic knowledge representation model ("AKRM") stored as machine-readable data and/or programming instructions on the one or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable storage media, the AKRM comprising: (i) one or more knowledge processing rules, and (ii) an elemental data structure comprising a first knowledge representation encoded as a first computer-readable data structure and comprising a first set of elemental components including a plurality of elemental concepts and at least one elemental concept relationship between the elemental concepts; one or more processors configured to execute a synthesis engine, an inference engine, and a statistical engine, wherein the synthesis engine, the inference engine, and the statistical engine operate together to perform synthesis of a second knowledge representation from the elemental data structure, the second knowledge representation encoded as a second computer-readable data structure, wherein the synthesis includes: the synthesis engine applying the one or more knowledge processing rules to the elemental data structure to synthesize one or more additional concepts or concept relationships not explicitly encoded in the first knowledge representation, the one or more additional concepts or concept relationships being encoded in the second knowledge representation; the inference engine applying one or more inference rules to the elemental data structure or to reference data stored in the one or more tangible, non- transitory computer-readable storage media to infer a relationship between a first elemental concept in the first knowledge representation and a second elemental concept in the first knowledge representation or between the first elemental concept in the first knowledge representation and a concept in the reference data; and the statistical engine estimates one or more probabilities associated with the elemental concepts or the at least one elemental concept relationship in the elemental data structure; and wherein the synthesis engine synthesizes the second knowledge representation based on an output of at least one of the inference engine and the statistical engine.
Examiner maintains the rejections of claims 1-20 for the reasons described
above.
Conclusions/Points of Contacts
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/MULUEMEBET GURMU/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2163