DETAILED ACTION
This Office Action is in response to an application filed on January 17, 2025, in which claims 2 through 21 are pending, and ready for examination.
Acknowledgement is made of Applicant’s claim for domestic benefit as a Continuation from U.S. Application No. 18/753,154 filed on June 25, 2024, now U.S. Patent No. 12,279,108, that application claiming domestic benefit as a Continuation from U.S Application No. 18/363,103 filed on August 1, 2023, now U.S. Patent No. 12,052,561, that application claiming domestic benefit as a Continuation of 17/539,229 filed on December 1, 2021, now U.S. Patent No. 11,729,611, that application claiming domestic benefit as a Continuation from 16/557,073 filed on August 30, 2019, now U.S. Patent No. 11,202,200, that application claiming domestic benefit as a Continuation from 16/155,112 filed on October 9, 2018, now U.S. Patent No. 10,489,504, that application claiming domestic benefit as a Continuation from U.S. Application No. 15/422,653 filed on February 2, 2017, now U.S. Patent No. 10,095,676, that application claiming domestic benefit as a Continuation from U.S. Application No. 14/608,417, now U.S. Patent No. 9,602,949, that application claiming domestic benefit from Provisional Application No. 61/933,136, filed on January 29, 2014.
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 .
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statements (IDS) submitted on January 17, 2025was filed before the mailing date of a first Office Action on the merits. The submission is in compliance with the provisions of 37 CFR 1.97. Accordingly, the information disclosure statement is being considered by the examiner.
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 claims at issue 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); and 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 a nonstatutory double patenting ground provided the reference application or patent either is shown to be commonly owned with this application, or claims an invention made as a result of activities undertaken within the scope of a joint research agreement. A terminal disclaimer must be signed in compliance with 37 CFR 1.321(b).
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Claims 2-21 are rejected on the grounds of nonstatutory double patenting as being unpatentable over claims 1-20 of U.S. Patent No. 12,052,561. Although the claim at issue is not identical, they are not patentably distinct from each other for the following reasons:
Independent claims 2, 11, and 17 of the instant application are obvious variations of the limitation recited in independent claims 1, 8, and 15 of U.S. Patent No. 12,052,561, claims 1, 7, and 14 of the instant application reciting components of the claimed system in lieu of “a mobile application running on a first device”, reciting “third-party system” in lieu of “API”, and removing the term “unpopulated” from “unpopulated field(s)”, as examples.
Claims 3-10, 12-16, and 18-21 of the instant application further recite various limitations that are also recited throughout the various dependent claims of U.S. Patent No. 12,052,561, and are therefore rejected under the same rationale.
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 person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(a)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claims 11-13 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Eigner, et al., U.S. Pub. No. 2014/0122988 (hereinafter referred to as Eigner).
With regard to claim 11, Eigner discloses one or more processors (Eigner, [0095]); and a memory in communication with the one or more processors and storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, are configured to cause the one or more processors (Eigner, [0095]) to: receive, via a mobile application running on a first user device, an indication of a user selection to auto-populate a first field of the mobile application using data from a third-party system (Eigner, [0010]-[0012]; [0033]-[0036]; [0074]-[0075]); responsive to receiving the indication, receive the data from the third-party system (Eigner, [0035]; [0093]; Claims 1, 4, and 5); and cause the mobile application to auto-populate the first field with the data (Eigner, [0031]; [0063]), wherein the data comprises a password associated with an account, a user of the first user device, or both (Eigner, [0050]; [0063]-[0064]).
With regard to claim 12, Eigner discloses the limitations of claim 11, as stated. Eigner further discloses wherein the third-party system is associated with an internet browser, and the one or more processors receive the data from a database associated with the internet browser (Eigner, [0031]-[0032]; [0035]).
With regard to claim 13, Eigner discloses the limitations of claim 11, as stated. Eigner further discloses wherein the mobile application comprises an account login screen (Eigner, [0075]; [0078]; [0080]; Fig. 5).
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure: See PTO-892.
Vernal, et al., U.S. Pub. No. 2015/0052036
Sharma, et al., U.S. Pub. No. 2013/0109348
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/J. BRANT MURPHY/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2435
May 30, 2026
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