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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 .
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
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 person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(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.
Claim(s) 1-4 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by NAKAMURA (US 20220236316 A1).
For claim 1. NAKAMURA discloses A mobile terminal testing device comprising: a positioner that is provided in an internal space of an anechoic box, has an azimuth axis and a roll axis that are each rotationally drivable by a drive motor, and rotates a mobile terminal that is a device under test so that the mobile terminal sequentially faces a plurality of preset angular sample points of a spherical coordinate system, using a center of the spherical coordinate system as a reference point (figures 1-6, [0080], [0086], [0087]); a simulated measurement device connected to a test antenna in the internal space ([0078], [0097], figure 2); an integrated control device that controls the simulated measurement device so that a measurement operation of transmitting a test signal from the test antenna to the mobile terminal, receiving a signal under measurement transmitted from the mobile terminal that has received the test signal by using the test antenna, and measuring a specific measurement item related to the mobile terminal based on the received signal under measurement is performed at a measurement position corresponding to each of the plurality of angular sample points ([0098], [0100], [0224], [0232]-[0234], [0259]-[0261]); and a positioner operation recording unit that stores an operation path of the positioner to the measurement position by tracing back from the measurement position to a preset number of the angular sample points ([0096], [0106], [0107], [0124], [0127]-[0129]); and a positioner operation control unit that controls the positioner according to the operation path stored in the positioner operation recording unit to adjust the mobile terminal to an angle of the measurement position when performing measurement at the measurement position ([0096], [0106], [0107], [0124], [0127]-[0129]).
For claim 2. The mobile terminal testing device according to claim 1, NAKAMURA discloses wherein the positioner operation recording unit stores different operation paths up to a preset number in a case where the operation path of the positioner to the measurement position is an operation path different from the stored operation path ([0127]-[0129], [0187]-[0193], coarse and fine grid measurements).
For claim 3. NAKAMURA discloses A mobile terminal testing method of a mobile terminal testing device including a positioner that is provided in an internal space of an anechoic box, has an azimuth axis and a roll axis that are each rotationally drivable by a drive motor, and rotates a mobile terminal that is a device under test so that the mobile terminal sequentially faces a plurality of preset angular sample points of a spherical coordinate system, using a center of the spherical coordinate system as a reference point (figures 1-6, [0080], [0086], [0087]), a simulated measurement device connected to a test antenna in the internal space ([0078], [0097], figure 2), and an integrated control device that controls the simulated measurement device so that a measurement operation of transmitting a test signal from the test antenna to the mobile terminal, receiving a signal under measurement transmitted from the mobile terminal that has received the test signal by using the test antenna, and measuring a specific measurement item related to the mobile terminal based on the received signal under measurement is performed at a measurement position corresponding to each of the plurality of angular sample points ([0098], [0100], [0224], [0232]-[0234], [0259]-[0261]), the mobile terminal testing method comprising: a step of storing an operation path of the positioner to the measurement position by tracing back from the measurement position to a preset number of the angular sample points ([0096], [0106], [0107], [0124], [0127]-[0129]); and a step of controlling the positioner according to the stored operation path to adjust the mobile terminal to an angle of the measurement position when performing measurement at the measurement position ([0096], [0106], [0107], [0124], [0127]-[0129]).
For claim 4. The mobile terminal testing method according to claim 3, NAKAMURA discloses wherein the step of storing the operation path of the positioner is a step of storing different operation paths up to a preset number in a case where the operation path of the positioner to the measurement position is an operation path different from the stored operation path ([0127]-[0129], [0187]-[0193], coarse and fine grid measurements).
Conclusion
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/Rui Meng Hu/
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August 28, 2026
/JINSONG HU/ Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 2643
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