DETAILED ACTION
Election/Restriction
Applicant’s election with traverse of claims 3-11, filed on 4/12/26, with respect to a restriction requirement of claims 1-12 is acknowledged. The traversal is on the ground(s) that because group I and II appear to be related aspects of a common inventive concept. This is not found persuasive because the space-time multiport antenna system as claimed in group I can be practiced without the needed for space-time multiport antenna system of group II comprising a dual-polarized antenna array comprising a plurality of antenna elements, wherein each of the antenna elements is in a crossed dipole structure and comprises a first dipole element extending horizontally along a first axis direction and a second dipole element extending vertically along a second axis direction, forming an orthogonal configuration at their intersection, wherein, in each of the antenna elements, the first dipole element is made of a conductive material aligned along a horizontal plane and the second dipole element is made of a conductive material aligned along a vertical plane, with the first dipole element and the second dipole element being spatially intersecting but electrically isolated. Therefore, claims 1-2 and 12 should cancel in the next response because groups I-III are not related aspects of a common inventive concept.
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)(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.
Claims 3-5, 7 and 9-11 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Wong et al (9,979,077).
Wong et al disclose a dual-polarized antenna array comprising a plurality of antenna elements (abstract, col2, lines 4-8), wherein each of the antenna elements is in a crossed dipole structure and comprises a first dipole element extending horizontally along a first axis direction and a second dipole element extending vertically along a second axis direction, forming an orthogonal configuration at their intersection (figs1-2), wherein, in each of the antenna elements, the first dipole element is made of a conductive material aligned along a horizontal plane and the second dipole element is made of a conductive material aligned along a vertical plane, with the first dipole element and the second dipole element being spatially intersecting but electrically isolated (the dipole elements being isolated otherwise they would be shorted, col2, lines 55-60); a plurality of feed ports, wherein each of the first dipole elements and the second dipole elements is connected to a corresponding one of the feed ports, enabling independent transmission and reception of horizontally or vertically polarized signals (fig2, col2, lines 4-54); and a controller connected to the dual-polarized antenna array via the feed ports and configured to control the antenna elements for dynamically switching states of the antenna elements, wherein each pair of the adjacent antenna elements form a unit and the two of the adjacent antenna elements in the unit are active at any given time, but their respective dipole elements operate in differing states (fig2, col2, lines 4-54).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 6 and 8 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
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. The patents to Kossin, DeRosny, Apostolos, Meharry, Ryken and Katagi are cited as of interested and illustrated a similar structure to a space-time multiport antenna system.
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/THO G PHAN/
Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2845
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