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 .
DETAILED ACTION
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 final rejection. 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, the finality of the previous Office action
has been withdrawn pursuant to 37 CFR 1.114. Applicant's submission filed on 07/01/26
has been entered.
Response to Amendment
This action is in response to applicant's arguments and amendments filed on
07/01/26. which are in response to USPTO Office Action mailed on 04/06/26.
Applicant's arguments and amendments have been considered with the results that
follow: THIS ACTION IS MADE NON-FINAL.
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statements (IDS) filed on 08/25/26 and 07/01/26 have been considered by the Examiner and made of record in the application file.
Double Patenting
The nonstatutory double patenting rejection is based on a judicially created
doctrine grounded in public policy (a policy reflected in the statute) so as to prevent the
unjustified or improper timewise extension of the “right to exclude” granted by a patent
and to prevent possible harassment by multiple assignees. A nonstatutory double
patenting rejection is appropriate where the conflicting claims are not identical, but at
least one examined application claim is not patentably distinct from the reference
claim(s) because the examined application claim is either anticipated by, or would have
been obvious over, the reference claim(s). See, e.g., In re Berg, 140 F.3d 1428, 46
USPQ2d 1226 (Fed. Cir. 1998); In re Goodman, 11 F.3d 1046, 29 USPQ2d 2010 (Fed.
Cir. 1993); In re Longi, 759 F.2d 887, 225 USPQ 645 (Fed. Cir. 1985); In re Van Ornum,
686 F.2d 937, 214 USPQ 761 (CCPA 1982); In re Vogel, 422 F.2d 438, 164 USPQ 619
(CCPA 1970); In re Thorington, 418 F.2d 528, 163 USPQ 644 (CCPA 1969).
A timely filed terminal disclaimer in compliance with 37 CFR 1.321(c) or 1.321(d) may
be used to overcome an actual or provisional rejection based on nonstatutory double
patenting provided the reference application or patent either is shown to be commonly
owned with the examined application, or claims an invention made as a result of
activities undertaken within the scope of a joint research agreement. See MPEP §
717.02 for applications subject to examination under the first inventor to file provisions
of the AIA as explained in MPEP § 2159. See MPEP §§ 706.02(l)(1) - 706.02(l)(3) for
applications not subject to examination under the first inventor to file provisions of the
AIA . A terminal disclaimer must be signed in compliance with 37 CFR 1.321(b).
The USPTO Internet website contains terminal disclaimer forms which may be used.
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which the form is filed determines what form (e.g., PTO/SB/25, PTO/SB/26,
PTO/AIA /25, or PTO/AIA /26) should be used. A web-based eTerminal Disclaimer may
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Claims 1-21 is rejected on the ground of nonstatutory double patenting as being
unpatentable over claims 1, 4-8, 11-15 and 18-27 of Patent No. 12, 254, 032.
Although the conflicting claims are not identical, they are not patentably distinct from
each other because claims 1, 4-8, 11-15 and 18-27 of Patent No. 12, 254, 032 contains every element of claim 1-21 of the instant application no. 18/990,446 and as such anticipates claim 1-21 of the instant application No. 18/990,446.
Both claim features of the instant application No. 18/990,446 and Patent No.
12, 254, 032 can be compared as follows:
Instant Application No. 18/990,446
Patent No. 12, 254, 032
1. A system, comprising: a processor; and a computer readable medium storing instructions translatable by the processor to implement a multilingual search engine, comprising instructions for:
receiving a set of multilingual objects; determining a set of fragments associated with each multilingual object, wherein each of the set of fragments comprises a portion of the multilingual object; determining an index language associated with each fragment of the corresponding of fragments of the multilingual object, wherein at least one fragment corresponds to a different index language than at least one other fragment from the corresponding set of
fragments; and based on the index of the corresponding set of fragments language, indexing
each fragment, from the corresponding set of fragments in a field of a single multilingual index in
association with the multilingual object.
1. A system, comprising: a processor; and a computer readable medium storing instructions translatable by the processor to implement a multilingual search engine, comprising instructions for: receiving a multilingual document; determining a set of fragments of a content of the multilingual document, wherein each of the set of fragments comprises a portion of the content of the multilingual document; determining an index language associated with each fragment of the determined set of fragments of the multilingual document; based on the index language, indexing each fragment in a multilingual object index in association with the multilingual document, wherein the multilingual object index includes tokens from the multilingual document in multiple languages determined according to their respective index language; receiving a search query; and performing the search query by: determining a set of search fragments of the search query, wherein each of the set of search fragments comprises a portion of the search query; determining a search language associated with each search fragment of the determined set of search fragments; and based on the search language associated with each search fragment, indexing each search fragment in a multilingual search index in association
7. The system of claim 3, wherein determining the set of tokens according to the index language is done using a language specific model for the index language.
4. (Previously Presented) The system of claim 1, wherein indexing each fragment is performed using a language specific model for the index language.
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/MULUEMEBET GURMU/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2163
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