The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
DETAILED ACTION
Claims 1-20 are presented for examination in this application (19/205,803) filed on May 12, 2025.
The Examiner cites particular sections in the references as applied to the claims below for the convenience of the applicant(s). Although the specified citations are representative of the teachings in the art and are applied to the specific limitations within the individual claim, other passages and figures may apply as well. It is respectfully requested that, in preparing responses, the applicant(s) fully consider the references in their entirety as potentially teaching all or part of the claimed invention, as well as the context of the passage as taught by the prior art or disclosed by the Examiner.
Claims 1-20 are pending for consideration.
Drawings
The drawings submitted on May 12, 2025 have been considered and accepted.
Claim Rejections - 35 U.S.C. 112
The following is a quotation 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 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), first paragraph:
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.
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.
Claim 1 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112 (b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as claims recite “operable to….cause the memory system to”, where it is unclear if these processors are executing the code or its intended use to do so but not necessarily executing the instructions.
Claims 5 and 7-10 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112 (b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as claims recite “operable to”, where it is unclear if these processors are executing the code or its intended use to do so but not necessarily executing the instructions.
Claims 6 and 14 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112 (b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as claims recite “associated with” as it is unclear what “associated with” refer to and how these flags are associated with the superblock.
Claims 11, 13, 15 and 16 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112 (b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as claims recite “instructions executable by one or more processors to”, where it is unclear if these processors are executing the code instructions or its intended use to do so but not necessarily executing the instructions.
All dependent claims are rejected as having the same deficiencies as the claims they depend from.
a(2) CLAIMS ALLOWED IN THE APPLICATION
Per the instant office action, claims 1-16 would be allowable if all 112 rejections are addressed.
The reasons for allowance of claims 1, 10 and 17 is that the prior art of record, neither anticipates, nor renders obvious the recited combination as a whole; including the limitations of “assign a first portion of the second partition to the first partition after configuring the first partition and the second partition; store data to the first partition after assigning the first portion to the first partition and as part of a manufacturing process; and assign the first portion to the second partition after experiencing an event of the manufacturing process”.
Pertinent Prior art
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Jain et al., US PGPUB 2024/0411469– teaches Selectable Performance-based partitioning.
Conclusion
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/MOHAMED M GEBRIL/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2135
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