DETAILED ACTION
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 .
Continued Examination Under 37 CFR 1.114
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and the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(e) has been timely paid, the finality of the previous Office action has been withdrawn pursuant to 37 CFR 1.114.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 January 22, 2026 has been entered.
Status of Claims
Claims 1-23, as recited in an amendment filed on September 10, 2025, were previously pending and subject to a final office action filed on October 23, 2025 (the “October 23, 2025 Final Office Action”). On January 22, 2026, Applicant filed a Request for Continued Examination in accordance with 37 CFR 1.114, where Applicant amended claims 1, 16, and 21 (the “January 22, 2026 RCE”). As such, claims 1-23, as recited in the January 22, 2025 RCE, are currently pending and subject to the non-final office action below.
Priority
Acknowledgment is made of applicant's claim for foreign priority based on an application filed in Greece on April 2, 2024.
Receipt is acknowledged of certified copies of papers required by 37 CFR 1.55.
Response to Applicant’s Remarks
Response to Applicant’s Remarks Concerning Rejections under 35 U.S.C. §§ 101 and 103
Applicant’s arguments, see Applicant’s Remarks, pp. 17-32, Section 101 Rejections and Section 103 Rejections Sections, filed January 22, 2026, with respect to rejections of: claims 1-23 under 35 U.S.C. § 101 and claims 1-23 under 35 U.S.C. § 103, have been fully considered, but they are moot in light of Applicant’s amendments to independent claims 1, 16, and 21. The analysis in the subject matter eligibility rejections under § 101 previously cited in the October 23, 2025 Final Office Action no longer apply to the amended claims in light of Applicant’s amendments to independent claims 1, 16, and 21. The combinations of the references previously cited in the October 23, 2025 Final Office Action, are not relied upon to teach the newly amended claim limitations in claims 1, 16, and 21. Furthermore, the updated search attached to this office action failed to generate closer prior art results.
As such, the §§ 101 and 103 are hereby withdrawn in light of the amendments. However, Examiner notes that Applicant’s amendments in the January 22, 2026 RCE have introduced issues under §§112(a). Consequently, all of the rejections will be reassessed in relation to §§ 101 and 103 if the Applicant amends the claims further.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112(a)
The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of 35 U.S.C. 112(a):
(a) IN GENERAL.—The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor or joint inventor of carrying out the invention.
The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112:
The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor of carrying out his invention.
Claims 1-23 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(a) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), first paragraph, as failing to comply with the written description requirement. The claim(s) contains subject matter which was not described in the specification in such a way as to reasonably convey to one skilled in the relevant art that the inventor or a joint inventor, or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the inventor(s), at the time the application was filed, had possession of the claimed invention.
Claims 1, 16, and 21 recite:
- "wherein the applying the anomaly detection process includes: […] analyzing the transformed one or more nodes and the transformed one or more edges to determine the outlier".
While Applicant’s specification provides written description support for (i) transforming nodes, edges, and their features into a low-dimensional space [see Applicant’s specification as filed on April 2, 2025, paragraph [00186]] and (ii) “the anomaly detection process may include a vector representation that may facilitate the detection of anomalies or outliers in the data” [see Applicant’s specification as filed on April 2, 2025, paragraph [00129]], Applicant’s specification is silent as to: “analyzing the transformed one or more nodes and the transformed one or more edges to determine the outlier” (i.e., the specification does not describe the application of the anomaly detection process including analyzing one or more transformed nodes and one or more transformed edges in order to determine the outlier). Therefore, this disclosure does not provide written description support for “wherein the applying the anomaly detection process includes: […] analyzing the transformed one or more nodes and the transformed one or more edges to determine the outlier”.
Matter not present on the filing date of the application in the specification, claims, or drawings that is added after the application filing is usually new matter. See MPEP §§ 2163.06 and 2163.07. These amendments (i) change the scope of the claims, and as described above, and (ii) contain subject matter which was not described in the specification in a way as to reasonably convey to one skilled in the relevant art that the inventors had possession of the claimed invention. Therefore, the limitations directed to: “analyzing the transformed one or more nodes and the transformed one or more edges to determine the outlier” (as described in claims 1, 16, and 21), are deemed to be new matter, because the specification does not provide written description support for them. As such, claims 1, 16, and 21 are rejected for failing to comply with the written description requirement under 35 U.S.C. § 112(a).
Claims 2-15, 17-20, 22, and 23 (which individually depend on claims 1, 16, and 21) are also rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(a) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), first paragraph, for failing to comply with the written description requirement for similar reasons as described in the § 112(a) new matter rejections of claims 1, 16, and 21 above.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. See PTO-892.
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/JONATHON A. SZUMNY/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3686