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 .
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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 person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(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.
(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, 6, 11 and 16-18 are rejected under 35 USC 102(a)(1) and 35 USC 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Takeda et al (US 2021/0226759, “Takeda”).
Re claims 1, 6 and 11, Takeda discloses receiving/sending first downlink control information (DCI) from a network device, wherein the first DCI is for scheduling physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) on a plurality of component carriers (CCs) (paragraphs [0056] and [0108]), the first DCI comprises a first field, and information carried in the first field is shared by the plurality of CCs, the first field carries information kl (paragraph [0109]), and the information kl indicates an offset value between a second reference location and a time unit corresponding to a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) (paragraph [0110], figures 5 and 6).
Re claims 16-18, Takeda discloses receiving the PDSCHs on the plurality of CCs based on scheduling of the first DCI (figure 6).
Claims 1, 2, 6, 7, 11, 12 and 16-18 are rejected under 35 USC 35 USC 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Kim et al (US 2025/0016770, “Kim”).
Re claims 1, 6 and 11, Kim discloses receiving/sending first downlink control information (DCI) from a network device, wherein the first DCI is for scheduling physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) on a plurality of component carriers (CCs) (paragraph [0076]]), the first DCI comprises a first field, and information carried in the first field is shared by the plurality of CCs, the first field carries information kl (paragraph [0054]), and the information kl indicates an offset value between a second reference location and a time unit corresponding to a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) (paragraph [0110], figure 21).
Re claims 2, 7 and 12, Kim discloses wherein the second reference location is a time unit corresponding to the last PDSCH in time domain among the PDSCHs on the plurality of CCs scheduled by using the first DCI (paragraphs [0079] and [0110]).
Re claims 16-18, Kim discloses receiving the PDSCHs on the plurality of CCs based on scheduling of the first DCI (paragraph [0110], figure 21).
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Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 3-5, 8-10, and 13-15 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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/HONG S CHO/
Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2467
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