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`PATENT
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`First Named Inventor :
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`Tadashi Yoshida
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`Application No.
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`14/383,021
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`September 4, 2014
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`TRANSMISSION DEVICE, RECEIVING DEVICE,
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`TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND RECEIVING METHOD
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`Examiner
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`Art Unit
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`Docket No.
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`Abdullahi Ahmed
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`2472
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`733456.500USPC
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`December 6, 2019
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`Commissioner for Patents
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`PO. Box 1450
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`Alexandria, VA 22313-1450
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`Commissioner for Patents:
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`RESPONSE UNDER 37 CFR 1.116
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`In response to the Office Action dated October 10, 2019, reconsideration of the
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`pending rejections in View of the following remarks is respectfully requested.
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`The Examiner rejected claims 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9 and 11-13 under 35 U.S.C. Section
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`103 as allegedly rendered obvious by reference Zhao et al. (US. Pub. No. 2012/0213113) in
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`View of reference Frenne et al. (US Pub. No. 2014/0050159). The Examiner rejected claim 3 as
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`allegedly rendered obVious by Zhao and Frenne in View of Kim et al. (US. Pub. No.
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`2009/0316807). The Examiner rejected claim 5 as allegedly rendered obVious by Zhao and
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`Frenne in View of Rudolf et al. (US. Pub. No. 2014/0362832). The Examiner rejected claims 8
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`and 10 as allegedly rendered obVious by Zhao and Freene in View of Lee et al. (US. Pub. No.
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`2013/0194931). The Examiner’s rejections are respectfully traversed.
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`Independent claim 1 recites, in part, as follows (with emphasis added):
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`selects, based on reception guality
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`control circuitry, which,
`calculated by a communication p_artner ap_p_aratus, one antenna p_ort pair from a
`first antenna port pair comprising two antenna ports and a second antenna port
`p_air comprising two antenna p_orts, wherein the first antenna port pair is selected
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