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`17/695,361
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`Commissioner for Patents
`United States Patent and Trademark Office
`P.O. Box 1450
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`In re Application of
`Panasonic Intellectual Property Management
`Co., Ltd.
`Application No. 17/695,361
`Filed: May 15, 2022
`For: METHOD FOR CONTROLLING
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`DECISION ON PETITION
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`This is a decision on the request to participate in the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) program
`and the petition under 37 CFR 1.102(a), filed September 27, 2022, to make the above-identified
`application special.
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`The request and petition are DISMISSED.
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`DISCUSSION
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`A grantable request to participate in the PPH pilot program and petition to make special require:
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`1. The U.S. application for which participation in the Global/IP5 PPH pilot program is
`requested must have the sameearliest date, whetherthis is the priority date or filing date, as
`that of a corresponding national or regional application filed with another Global/IP5 PPH
`participating office or a corresponding PCTinternational application for which oneofthe
`Global/IP5 PPH participating offices was the International Searching Authority (ISA) or the
`International Preliminary Examining Authority (IPEA);
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`2. Applicant must:
`a. Ensure all the claims in the U.S. application must sufficiently correspond or be
`amendedto sufficiently correspondto the allowable/patentable claim(s) in the
`corresponding Office of Earlier Examination (OEE) application and
`b. Submit a claims correspondencetable in English;
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`3. Examination of the U.S. application has not begun;
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`4. Applicant must submit:
`a. Documentation of prior office action:
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`acopy of the office action(s) just prior to the “Decision to Grant a Patent”
`i.
`from each of the Global/IP5 PPHparticipating office application(s) containing
`the allowable/patentable claim(s) or
`ii.
`if the allowable/patentable claims(s) are from a “Notification of Reasons
`for Refusal” then the Notification of Reasons for Refusal or
`ui. if the Global/IP5 PPH participating office applicationis a first action
`allowance then no office action from the Global/IP5 PPH participating office
`is necessary should be indicated on the request/petition form or
`iv.
`the latest work product in the international phase of the OEE PCT
`application;
`b. An English language translation of the Global/IP5 PPH participating office action
`or work product from (4)(a)(i)-(41) or (iv) above; and
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`5. Applicant must submit:
`a. An IDSlisting the documents cited by the Global/IP5 PPH participating office
`examiner in the Global/IP5 PPHparticipating office action or work product (unless
`already submitted in this application)
`b. Copies of the documents except U.S. patents or U.S. patent application
`publications (unless already submitted in this application).
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`Conditions (1), (3), (4) and (5) above are considered to have been met. However, the requestto
`participate in the PPH pilot program and petition fail to comply with condition (2).
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`Regarding the requirement of condition (2), the Claims Correspondence Table states the U.S.
`claims 1 and 2 corresponds to OEE claims 1 and 2. However, U.S. claims 1 and 2 do not
`sufficiently correspond with the allowable OEEclaims1 and 2 because the limitations have been
`recited in U.S. claims 1 and 2 that are not recited in OEE claims 1 and 2. It is applicant’s
`responsibility to compare andidentify claims corresponding between the U.S. application
`and OEEapplication.
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`Applicant is given ONE opportunity within a time period of ONE MONTHor THIRTY
`DAYS, whicheveris longer, from the mailing date of this decision to correct the deficiencies.
`NO EXTENSION OF TIME UNDER37 CFR 1.136 IS PERMITTED. If the deficiencies are
`not corrected with the time period given, the application will await action in its regular turn.
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`Response mustbefiled via the Electronic Filing System (EFS) using the documentdescription:
`Petition to make special under Patent Pros Hwy. Any preliminary amendments and IDS
`submitted with the PPH documents must be separately indexed as a preliminary amendment and
`IDS, respectively.
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`Telephoneinquiries concerning this decision should be directed to Schene Gray Paralegal
`Specialist whose telephone numberis (571) 272-2581.
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