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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 .
Continued Examination Under 37 CFR 1.114
A request for continued examination under 37 CFR 1.114, including the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(e), was filed in this application after allowance or after an Office action under Ex Parte Quayle, 25 USPQ 74, 453 O.G. 213 (Comm'r Pat. 1935). Since this application is eligible for continued examination under 37 CFR 1.114, and the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(e) has been timely paid, prosecution in this application has been reopened pursuant to 37 CFR 1.114. Applicant's submission filed on 06/05/2026 has been entered.
Claim Objections
Claim 17 is objected to because of the following informalities:
Claim 17 recites “receive the random access message 1 transmitted from a random access channel occasion selected from the first random access channel occasion configuration and the second random access channel occasion configuration” in lines 12-14. For clarity, it is suggested to replace with “receive the random access message 1 transmitted from a random access channel occasion selected from both the first random access channel occasion configuration and the second random access channel occasion configuration”.
Appropriate correction is required.
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.
Claims 16-18 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor, or for pre-AIA the applicant regards as the invention.
Claim 16 recites “select a random access channel occasion from the first random access channel occasion configuration and the second random access channel occasion configuration for a random access message 1 transmission” in lines 12-14. It is unclear whether “select a random access channel occasion from” is referring to a) “the first random access channel occasion configuration” or b) “the first random access channel occasion configuration and the second random access channel occasion configuration”. It is also unclear whether “for a random access message 1 transmission” is referring to a) “the second random access channel occasion configuration” or b) “select a random access channel occasion”.
Claim 17 recites the limitation "the random access message 1" in line 12. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Claim 18 recites “selecting a random access channel occasion from the first random access channel occasion configuration and the second random access channel occasion configuration for a random access message 1 transmission” in lines 7-9. It is unclear whether “selecting a random access channel occasion from” is referring to a) “the first random access channel occasion configuration” or b) “the first random access channel occasion configuration and the second random access channel occasion configuration”. It is also unclear whether “for a random access message 1 transmission” is referring to a) “the second random access channel occasion configuration” or b) “selecting a random access channel occasion”.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Taherzadeh Boroujeni et al. (US 2022/0053566 A1), see Fig. 11, 18, 24, para. 6-13, discloses repetition of a random access response message.
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