DETAILED ACTION
This Office Action is in response to an application filed on November 7, 2024, in which claims 45 through 64 are pending, and ready for examination.
Acknowledgement is made of Applicant’s claim for domestic benefit as a Continuation of U.S. Application No. 18/227,292 filed on July 27, 2023, now U.S. Patent No. 12,271,466, that application claiming benefit as a Continuation of U.S. Application No. 17/219,674 filed on March 31, 2021, now U.S. Patent No. 11,755, 718, that application claiming benefit as a Continuation of U.S. Application No. 16/079,093 filed on August 22, 2018, now U.S. Patent No. 11,347,838, that application having a claim for benefit to PCT/IB2017/050820 filed on February 14, 2017.
Acknowledgement is made of Applicant’s preliminary amendment filed on January 10, 2025.
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
The information disclosure statements (IDS) submitted on October 1, 2025 was filed before the mailing date of a first Office Action on the merits. 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 § 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.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claims 45-64 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.
Claims 45 and 59 each recite, “the plurality of authorized users”.
There is insufficient antecedent basis for this element in the claim(s).
Claims 46-58 and 60-64 are each dependent from one of claims 45 or 59, and are therefore rejected based upon that dependency.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure: See PTO-892.
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/J. BRANT MURPHY/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2435
January 24, 2026