DETAILED ACTION
1. This is the first action on the merits relating to U.S. Application Serial No. 19/184,179 filed on April 21, 2025.
Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
2. The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Preliminary Amendment
3. Receipt is acknowledged of the preliminary amendment filed on April 25. In the amendment claims 1-20 were canceled, and claims 21-40 were newly added. Claims 21-40 remain in the examination.
4. Related application information submitted in the preliminary amendment as paragraph [0001] of the specification is acknowledged.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
5. The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
6. Claims 21-40 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor (or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention.
Regarding claim 21, lines 8-9: “auto-filing, by the secondary device responsive to receiving the accommodation message, a form:” “a form” without a context is vague and indefinite. For example, is it a form on a paper, or an application running on the second device (most likely) or any other “form?” The current phrase “a form” in claim 1 is lacking a context or embodiment to clearly limit the current limitation. Therefore, claim 1 is vague and indefinite.
Combining claims 21 and 23 would overcome this rejection and place the claims in allowable form. The suggested combination of claims 21 and 23, is not narrowing the scope of the claim. Rather, it improves the clarity of the claim, and place the claim in a better form.
Claim 32 is rejected on the same ground as claim 21. Claim 32 should be amended in the same manner as it is suggested for claim 21.
Claim 37 is rejected on the same ground as claim 21. Claim 37 should be amended in the same manner as it is suggested for claim 21.
Claim 41 is rejected on the same ground as claim 21. Claim 41 should be amended in the same manner as it is suggested for claim 21 (combination of claims 41 and 43).
Claim 48 recites the limitation "The non-transitory computer-readable medium" in claim 21. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim. “Claim 21” in the preamble should be changed to “claim 41.”
7. Claims 22-31, 33-36, 38-40, and 42-50 rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being directly or through intervening claims, dependent on rejected base claims 21, 32, 37, and 41.
Additional Remarks
8. Once the independent claims overcome 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph rejection as described in paragraph 6 above, and claim 48 is amended, the claims would be allowable.
Conclusion
The pertinent prior arts made of record but not relied are listed in the attached form PTO-892. These are considered pertinent to Applicant's disclosure. Applicant is respectfully suggested to carefully review these references.
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/AHSHIK KIM/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2876
February 18, 2026
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