DETAILED ACTION
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 .
Applicant’s Response
Applicant’s response, filed 02/12/2026, has been fully considered. Rejections and/or objections not reiterated from previous Office Actions are hereby withdrawn. The following rejections and/or objections are either reiterated or newly applied. They constitute the complete set presently being applied to the instant application.
Claims Status
Claim 20 is canceled.
Claims 1-19, 21, and 22 are pending.
Claims 1-19, 21, and 22 are examined.
Withdrawn Objections/Rejections
The objection to the Specification is withdrawn in view of the amendments submitted.
The objection to claims 21 and 22 are withdrawn in view of the amendments submitted.
The rejection of claims 1-19, 21, and 22 under 35 USC 112(b) is withdrawn in view of the amendments submitted.
The rejection of claims 1-22 under 35 USC 101 is withdrawn in view of the amendments submitted because the judicial exceptions are integrated into a practical application because the routing of the calculation to either the machine learning model or the ground truth calculation makes the computer function more computationally efficient and thus improves the computer, as discussed on page 2 and 3 of Applicant’s Remarks filed 02/12/2026.
The rejection of 1-3, 7, 13, 18, and 20-22 under 35 USC 103 over Kailkhura et al. is withdrawn in view of the amendments submitted.
The rejection of claims 4-6, 14-16, and 19 under 35 USC 103 over Kailkhura et al. in view of Stojevic et al. is withdrawn in view of the amendments submitted.
The rejection of claims 8-11 under 35 USC 103 over Kailkhura in view of Aithani et al. is withdrawn in view of the amendments submitted.
The rejection of claim 12 under 35 USC 103 over Kailkhura et al. in view of Stojevic et al. is withdrawn in view of the amendments submitted.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of 35 U.S.C. 112(a):
(a) IN GENERAL.—The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor or joint inventor of carrying out the invention.
The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112:
The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor of carrying out his invention.
Claims 1-19, 21, and 22 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(a) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), first paragraph, as failing to comply with the written description requirement. The claim(s) contains subject matter which was not described in the specification in such a way as to reasonably convey to one skilled in the relevant art that the inventor or a joint inventor, or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the inventor(s), at the time the application was filed, had possession of the claimed invention. This is a new grounds of rejection as necessitated by claim amendments.
With respect to claims 1, 21, and 22, the Specification as originally filed includes written description for “If the reliability metric for a given crystal structure calculated by the reliability metric calculator 104 is not within a predetermined threshold, the ground truth calculation engine 108 calculates a property metric for the crystal structure” (page 22, line 22); “The ground truth calculation can be computed using a molecular dynamics or Monte Carlo method. The ground truth calculation can be computed using a quantum mechanical method” (page 23, line 3). However, the Specification does not appear to provide any written description for “a ground truth model”.
Conclusion
No claims are allowed.
Applicant's amendment necessitated the new ground(s) of rejection presented in this Office action. Accordingly, THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL. See MPEP § 706.07(a). Applicant is reminded of the extension of time policy as set forth in 37 CFR 1.136(a).
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/E.A.S./Examiner, Art Unit 1686
/LARRY D RIGGS II/Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 1686
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