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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 .
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Double Patenting
A rejection based on double patenting of the “same invention” type finds its support in the language of 35 U.S.C. 101 which states that “whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process... may obtain a patent therefor...” (Emphasis added). Thus, the term “same invention,” in this context, means an invention drawn to identical subject matter. See Miller v. Eagle Mfg. Co., 151 U.S. 186 (1894); In re Vogel, 422 F.2d 438, 164 USPQ 619 (CCPA 1970); In re Ockert, 245 F.2d 467, 114 USPQ 330 (CCPA 1957).
A statutory type (35 U.S.C. 101) double patenting rejection can be overcome by canceling or amending the claims that are directed to the same invention so they are no longer coextensive in scope. The filing of a terminal disclaimer cannot overcome a double patenting rejection based upon 35 U.S.C. 101.
Claim 1 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 as claiming the same invention as that of claim 1 of prior U.S. Patent No. 12,225,238. This is a statutory double patenting rejection.
Claim 1 of present Application ‘183 is verbatim with claim 1 of Patent ‘238. Peruse the table below.
Present Application 19/015,183
US Patent No. 12,225,238
Claim 1.
An encoder for encoding a picture into a data stream, the encoder configured to: signal a plurality of coding parameters in the data stream which relate to a predetermined portion of the picture and control a prediction residual transform mode and a quantization accuracy with respect to the predetermined portion; check whether the plurality of coding parameters are indicative of a coding parameter setting corresponding to a lossless prediction residual coding; and responsive to the plurality of coding parameters being indicative of the coding parameter setting corresponding to the lossless prediction residual coding, setting one or more predetermined coding options relating to one or more tools of the encoder for processing a prediction residual corrected predictive reconstruction with respect to the predetermined portion so that the one or more tools are disabled with respect to the predetermined portion.
Claim 1.
An encoder for encoding a picture into a data stream, the encoder configured to: signal a plurality of coding parameters in the data stream which relate to a predetermined portion of the picture and control a prediction residual transform mode and a quantization accuracy with respect to the predetermined portion; check whether the plurality of coding parameters are indicative of a coding parameter setting corresponding to a lossless prediction residual coding; and responsive to the plurality of coding parameters being indicative of the coding parameter setting corresponding to the lossless prediction residual coding, setting one or more predetermined coding options relating to one or more tools of the encoder for processing a prediction residual corrected predictive reconstruction with respect to the predetermined portion so that the one or more tools are disabled with respect to the predetermined portion.
Citation of Other Pertinent Art
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
1. “A SIGNAL ENCODER AND DECODER FOR USING PREDICTOR MODELS” - Fannes et al. (US 2019/0028114).
2. “TRANSFORM SKIPPING AND LOSSLESS CODING UNIFICATION” - Van Der Auwera et al. (US 2013/0294524).
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/ALLEN C WONG/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2488