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`16/218,244
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`12/12/2018
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`Prateek Basu Mallick
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`736456.434C2
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`7249
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`Seed IP Law Group LLP/Panason1e (PIPCA)
`701 5th Avenue, Suite 5400
`Seattle, WA 98104
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`ONAMUTL GBEMILEKE J
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`ART UNIT
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`2463
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`PAPER NUMBER
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`NOTIFICATION DATE
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`DELIVERY MODE
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`10/02/2019
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`ELECTRONIC
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`Please find below and/or attached an Office communication concerning this application or proceeding.
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`The time period for reply, if any, is set in the attached communication.
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`Notice of the Office communication was sent electronically on above—indicated "Notification Date" to the
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`following e—mail address(es):
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`pairlinkdktg @ seedip .eom
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`PTOL-90A (Rev. 04/07)
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`Application No.
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`16/218,244
`Examiner
`GBEMILEKE J ONAMUTI
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`Applicant(s)
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`Basu Mallick et al.
`Art Unit
`AIA (FITF) Status
`2463
`Yes
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`- The MAILING DA TE of this communication appears on the cover sheet wit/7 the correspondence address-
`All claims being allowable, PROSECUTION ON THE MERITS IS (OR REMAINS) CLOSED in this application. If not included
`herewith (or previously mailed), a Notice of Allowance (PTOL-85) or other appropriate communication will be mailed in due course. THIS
`NOTICE OF ALLOWABILITY IS NOT A GRANT OF PATENT RIGHTS. This application is subject to withdrawal from issue at the initiative
`of the Office or upon petition by the applicant. See 37 CFR 1.313 and MPEP 1308.
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`1.. This communication is responsive to 07/22/2019.
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`[:I A declaration(s)/affidavit(s) under 37 CFR 1.130(b) was/were filed on
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`2:] An election was made by the applicant in response to a restriction requirement set forth during the interview on
`restriction requirement and election have been incorporated into this action.
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`; the
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`3.. The allowed c|aim(s) is/are 1-18 . As a result of the allowed c|aim(s), you may be eligible to benefit from the Patent Prosecution
`Highway program at a participating intellectual property office for the corresponding application. For more information, please see
`http://www.uspto.gov/patents/init_events/pph/index.jsp or send an inquiry to PPeredback@uspto.gov.
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`4C] Acknowledgment is made of a claim for foreign priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119( )-(d) or (f).
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`Certified copies:
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`a) DAII
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`b) C] Some
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`*0) D None of the:
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`1. D Certified copies of the priority documents have been received.
`2. [:1 Certified copies of the priority documents have been received in Application No.
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`3. [:1 Copies of the certified copies of the priority documents have been received in this national stage application from the
`International Bureau (PCT Rule 17.2( )).
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`* Certified copies not received:
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`Applicant has THREE MONTHS FROM THE “MAILING DATE“ of this communication to file a reply complying with the requirements
`noted below. Failure to timely comply will result in ABANDONMENT of this application.
`THIS THREE-MONTH PERIOD IS NOT EXTENDABLE.
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`5C] CORRECTED DRAWINGS (as “replacement sheets“) must be submitted.
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`including changes required by the attached Examiner's Amendment / Comment or in the Office action of
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`Identifying indicia such as the application number (see 37 CFR 1.84(c)) should be written on the drawings in the front (not the back) of each
`sheet. Replacement sheet(s) should be labeled as such in the header according to 37 CFR 1.121(d).
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`6C] DEPOSIT OF and/or INFORMATION about the deposit of BIOLOGICAL MATERIAL must be submitted. Note the
`attached Examiner's comment regarding REQUIREMENT FOR THE DEPOSIT OF BIOLOGICAL MATERIAL.
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`Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2463
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`Attachment(s)
`1.[:] Notice of References Cited (PTO-892)
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`2D Information Disclosure Statements (PTO/SB/08),
`Paper No./Mai| Date
`3C] Examiner's Comment Regarding Requirement for Deposit
`of Biological Material
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`4.!3 Interview Summary (PTO-413)
`Paper No./Mai| Date.
`/GBEMILEKE J ONAMUTI/
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`5. D Examiner's Amendment/Comment
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`6.
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`Examiner's Statement of Reasons for Allowance
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`7. C] Other
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`US. Patent and Trademark Office
`PTOL-37 (Rev. 08-13)
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`Notice of Allowability
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`Part of Paper No/Mall Date 20190925
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`Application/Control Number: 16/218,244
`Art Unit: 2463
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`DETAILED ACTION
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`Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
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`The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013,
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`is being examined
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`under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA.
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`Response to Remarks
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`2.
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`This communication is considered fully responsive to the response filed on the
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`22nd of July, 2019.
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`(a).
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`The rejection(s) of Claims 1-16 under 35 U.S.C. 101 as claiming the same
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`invention as that of Claims 1-16 of prior Patent No.: US 9,888,424 B2 to Basu
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`Mallick et al. is withdrawn because the claim(s) have been amended accordingly
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`to overcome this rejection.
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`Allowable Subject Matter
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`3.
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`Claims 1-18 are allowed.
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`Independent Claims 1, 13 and 14 are allowable over
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`prior art since none of the prior art taken individually or in combination fails to
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`particularly disclose, fairly suggests or render obvious ‘a receiver which, in operation,
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`receives a handoff command message for a handoff including a handoff execution
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`condition and a handoff validity timer, wherein the receiver, in operation, receives the
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`handoff command message from a source base station via a downlink carrier of a
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`source radio cell,' and circuitry which, in operation, determines, based on the received
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`handoff execution condition included in the handoff command message, whether or not
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`the mobile terminal is to trigger execution of the handoff; wherein, when the circuitry
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`determines that the mobile terminal is to trigger the execution of the handoff, the mobile
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`terminal executes the handoff by: (a) performing a random access channel (RACH)
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`procedure to thereby time align an uplink carrier of a target radio cell, and (b)
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`transmitting a handoff complete message thereby indicating completion of the handoff
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`including completion of configuration of the mobile terminal for communication via the
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`target radio cell; and wherein when the circuitry does not, within a first pre-configured
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`period of time, determine that the mobile terminal is to trigger the execution of the
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`handoff, the circuitry: discards the received handoff command message; and re-
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`configures the first pre-configured period of time based on the handoff validity timer’.
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`Conclusion
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`/GBEMILEKE J ONAMUTI/
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`Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2463
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