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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>David:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I already have an AFCP 2.0 and response pending. My beef is that \u201cthey\u201d have refused to let the Examiner look at it because the Petition is pending. In other words, my client\u2019s gain from my filing the petition to withdraw finality is a guaranteed 3 month extension plus appeal fee plus AFCP preparation fee. The gain is that I am likely to pursue the original claims, since amending claim 1 to add claim 4 was a concession to make progress. That deal seems off the table now. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual'>Very truly yours,</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual'>Steven M. Hoffberg<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual'>Hoffberg & Associates<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual'>29 Buckout Road<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual'>West Harrison, NY 10604<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual'>(914) 949-2300 tel<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual'>(845) 625-2547 fax<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:standardcontextual'><a href="mailto:steve@hoffberglaw.com"><span style='color:#0563C1'>steve@hoffberglaw.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:standardcontextual'><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/hoffberg/"><span style='color:#0563C1'>https://www.linkedin.com/in/hoffberg/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual'>Emails and attachments received from us may be confidential and/or protected by the attorney-client privilege, as attorney work-product or based on other privileges or provisions of law. 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This is not for laypersons to seek legal advice. <patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Patentpractice] Petition to Withdraw Finality<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Makes an easy appeal, no?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>File a routine Rule 116 Request for Reconsideration at least a day before, and then the Notice of Appeal and Pre-Appeal no later than the deadline. (Be sure they're at least a day apart.) Either you'll get a reverse or reopen (good) out of the Pre-Appeal, or you'll get an Advisory Acton out of the Request for Reconsideration, so at least you know the examiner's best thoughts for a more focused appeal. (Also, the notice that created pre-appeals encouraged you to refer to argumetns in prior papers, <span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>USPTO, <i>New Pre-Appeal Brief Conference Pilot Program</i>, 1296 Off. Gaz. Pat. Office, Vol. 2 at 67 (Jul. 12, 2005) <a href="http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/sol/og/2005/week28/patbref.htm">http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/sol/og/2005/week28/patbref.htm</a></span> ). If you can avoid RCEing, that's good -- an increasing fraction of examiners are playing the kind of game you describe, to milk counts that aren't earned. If you keep the count system working in your favor instead of against you,. eventually you will get the examiner to engage -- either to allow or to give you a cogent explanation.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 7:22<span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>\u202f</span>PM <<a href="mailto:steve@hoffberglaw.com">steve@hoffberglaw.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>The issue is that claim 4 was materially amended after non-final rejection, and I still have no idea what aspect of either reference is being treated as disclosing the feature of the claims \u201cwherein at least two of the plurality of wearable or implantable sensors sense the same physiological condition\u201d. The issue on Petition is in fact presence of a prima facie rejection, but there is a parallel argument on the merits that claim 4 is patentable\u2014but, the Examiner is somehow precluded by USPTO policy from reviewing my submission. Claim 4 was amended as follows:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>4. (Currently Amended) The biometric system of claim 1, wherein the physiological [[data]] <u>condition</u> is selected from the group consisting of a cardiac activity, a muscular activity, a galvanic skin response, an electrophysiological activity<u>,</u> [[;]] a temperature, a blood pressure, a glucose level, an oxygen saturation, a nitric oxide level, a vasodilation level, an extravascular fluid condition, a physical balance, a muscular coordination, a physical exhaustion, an endurance limit<u>, and wherein at least two of the plurality of wearable or implantable sensors sense the same physiological condition</u>.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>The non-final rejection reads as follows:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> Regarding claim 4, Khachaturian discloses the biometric system of claim 1, wherein the physiological data is selected from the group consisting of a cardiac activity, a muscular activity, a galvanic skin response, an electrophysiological activity; a temperature, a blood pressure, a glucose level, an oxygen saturation, a nitric oxide level, a vasodilation level, an extravascular fluid condition, a physical balance, a muscular coordination, a physical exhaustion, an endurance limit (In one aspect, a device measures temperature, heart rate at rest, heart rate variability, respiration, SpO2, blood flow, blood pressure, total hemoglobin (SpHb), PVi, methemoglobin (SpMet), acoustic respiration rate (RRa), carboxyhemoglobin (SpCO), oxygen reserve index (ORi), oxygen content (SpOC) and/or EEG of a human(col. 1, lines 28-33)).</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>The final rejection reads as follows:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> Regarding claim 4, Khachaturian <u>in view of Sharf teaches</u> the biometric system of claim 1, wherein the physiological condition is selected from the group consisting of a cardiac activity, a muscular activity, a galvanic skin response, an electrophysiological activity, a temperature, a blood pressure, a glucose level, an oxygen saturation, a nitric oxide level, a vasodilation level, an extravascular fluid condition, a physical balance, a muscular coordination, a physical exhaustion, an endurance limit<u>, and wherein at least two of the plurality of wearable or implantable sensors sense the same physiological condition</u> (In one aspect, a device measures temperature, heart rate at rest, heart rate variability, respiration, SpO2, blood flow, blood pressure, total hemoglobin (SpHb), PVi, methemoglobin (SpMet), acoustic respiration rate (RRa), carboxyhemoglobin (SpCO), oxygen reserve index (ORi), oxygen content (SpOC) and/or EEG of a human (col. 1, lines 28-33)).</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Therefore, the Examiner simply parroted the language of the claim and named the secondary reference to the rejection, without altering the analysis or otherwise apprising me of which reference allegedly contains the \u201csame physiological condition\u201d language (my position on the merits is that neither does). It is certainly not at col. 1, lines 28-33 of Khachaturian:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><img border=0 width=331 height=88 style='width:3.4479in;height:.9166in' id="m_-2163307422982162983Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01DB6DE0.DA6D7530"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> The advisory action included no supplemental sheet, and only boxes 1(b), 3(c), 7 (will not be entered), and 12 (\u201cThe amendments do not overcome the current prior art rejection\u201d) are checked, with no explanation whatsoever.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Very truly yours,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Steven M. Hoffberg</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hoffberg & Associates</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>29 Buckout Road</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>West Harrison, NY 10604</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>(914) 949-2300 tel</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>(845) 625-2547 fax</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><a href="mailto:steve@hoffberglaw.com" target="_blank"><span style='color:#0563C1'>steve@hoffberglaw.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/hoffberg/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#0563C1'>https://www.linkedin.com/in/hoffberg/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> David Boundy <<a href="mailto:DavidBoundyEsq@gmail.com" target="_blank">DavidBoundyEsq@gmail.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 23, 2025 1:01 PM<br><b>To:</b> For patent practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek legal advice. <<a href="mailto:patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com" target="_blank">patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:steve@hoffberglaw.com" target="_blank">steve@hoffberglaw.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Patentpractice] Petition to Withdraw Finality</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Without deep thought and research, you might have a plausible case if you're willing to go to federal Court. (But I'd need to research it much deeper to know whether you have a strong case or a weak one.) The PTO's use of strategic delay in deciding petitions is truly beyond the pale, and you might well have a plausible claim.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>The PTO's position is that <i>In re Jung </i>abs<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>olves the PTO of the obligation of 5 U.S.C. § 555(e) to give you a useful explanation and <i>bona fide</i> response to your traverse. Contrast </span><a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/555" target="_blank">https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/555</a> with <a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1519848467837385132" target="_blank">https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1519848467837385132</a> (Jung is particularly galling -- while the attorneys were working on the brief, I told them that 35 U.S.C. § 132 wouldn't get them where they needed to go, look at <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>§ 555</span> instead. They went with § 132. And lost. Oh well.)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Theoretically, you could request a § 1.136(b) extension. You have arguably "prosecuted the application" in a statutory sense, but how likely do you think it is that the PTO will buy that? A court maybe (I don't know how that one would come out). But the PTO only over dead bodies.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>In the real world, where bullying goes unpunished because it generates revenue for the PTO and the PTO knows that court review will cost you six figures, the practical reality is that you're stuck. Appeal.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 12:24<span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>\u202f</span>PM steve--- via Patentpractice <<a href="mailto:patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com" target="_blank">patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204)'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Dear Group:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I ask your advice, both consensus and obscure, regarding action based on the below. I am tending toward a Notice of Appeal, preappeal conference request, and usurious extension of time. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>The subject case had a Final office action issued 7/26/2024. On 9/26/2024, I filed both an after final response and a petition to withdraw finality. An advisory action was issued 10/1/2024, and a Petition Decision was mail 10/23/2024. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>The petition was filed because a dependent claim was amended after non-final rejection, and the Examiner in the final rejection did not actually consider the effect of the amendment. This became critical when that same dependent claim was sought to be added to the independent claim.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>A Request for Reconsideration of the dismissal of the Petition was filed 10/24/2024. In this request for rehearing, a key sentence was \u201cWhile the issues of the claim admittedly changed, and the Examiner withdrew the prior rejections of claims 1-20, the final rejection did not, other than parroting the claim language, actually consider and analyze the differences in claim 4 before and after the amendment.\u201d The conclusion states:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'>Given that the language of the rejection explicitly fails to support the rejection, it is disingenuous for the Director to state \u201cAs detailed above, the limitation of claim 4 reciting \u2018wherein at least two of the plurality of wearable or implantable sensors sense the same physiological condition\u2019 was <b><i>discussed</i></b> by the examiner as being taught in Khachaturian in the Final Office action dated 26 July 2024 in the second paragraph on page 5.\u201d While the issue may have been nominally \u201cdiscussed\u201d, that is not the threshold required to sustain a final rejection according to 35 U.S.C. § 132(a) (\u201c\u2026\u201d) and 37 C.F.R. § 1.104 (\u201c\u2026\u201d).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>The request for rehearing was routed to the Office of Petitions, and based on a discussion, has not even been docketed to a petitions examiner, with the statutory deadline looming this week. 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