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`The Pending Claims
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`Claims 26-45 are currently pending. Reconsideration and allowance of the pending
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`claims is respectfully requested.
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`Reply of the Advisory Action
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`The advisory action states: “Reissue Declaration: the examiner notes that the reissue
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`declaration remains defective since both inventors must sign the declaration. In
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`addition, with respect to the broadening statement, as set forth in the Final
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`Rejection, ‘any error in the claims must be identified by reference to the specific
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`claim(s) and the specific claim language wherelies the error''. In the revised
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`declaration, the Applicant has cited several limitations from claim 1. Thisis
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`insufficient since it does not identify ''the specific claim language".
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`Thus the corrected reissue declaration is insufficient since the error statement does
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`not specifically identify the error in original claim 1.”
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`In response to the above objection, applicant submits a new reissue declaration
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`with the correction as follows:
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`The digital signal processor in claim | of the issued patent US RE47,049 E did
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`not include an echo cancellation unit. It included only a sound source localization unit, an
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`adaptive beamforming unit, and a noise reduction unit. Echo cancellation unit had been
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`missed out. This error is corrected in claim 26 of current application, where the digital
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`signal processor includes the in addition to the sound sourcelocalization unit, the
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`adaptive beamforming unit, and the noise reduction unit. The specific claim language in
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`claim 26 where the correction is made is shown below:
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`“providing a microphone array system comprising an array of sound sensors
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`positioned in an arbitrary a linear, circular, or other configuration, a sound source
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`localization unit, an adaptive beamforming unit, [and] a noise reduction unit, and
`an echo cancellation unit, wherein said sound source localization unit, said
`adaptive beamforming unit, [and] said noise reduction unit, and said echo
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`cancellation unit are integrated in a digital signal processor, and wherein said
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`[sound source localization unit, said adaptive beamforming unit, and said noise
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`reduction unit are] said digital signal processor is in operative communication
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`with said array of said sound sensors;”
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`Applicant, therefore respectfully requests that the objection to the reissue
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`declaration be reconsidered and withdrawn.
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`The advisory action further states: “IDS: The IDS submitted on December 6,2019 is
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`not in compliance with 37 CFR 1.97(d). Asset forth therein: an ids submitted after a
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`final office action, must included ''(1) The statementspecified in paragraph (e) of
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`this section; and (2) the fee set forth in 1.17(p)."'
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`The Applicant does not appear to have submitted a fee with their submission. In
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`addition, one of the submitted IDS does not have a certification statement.
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`Therefore, the examiner has not considered the Applicant's submission of December
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`6, 2019.”
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`In responseto the above objection, applicant resubmits all the IDS forms not
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`considered till now along with required USPTO fee. Applicant, therefore respectfully
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`requests that the objection to the IDS forms be reconsidered and withdrawn.
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`Date: Jan. 03, 2019
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`Correspondence Address
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`/a tankha/
`Ashok Tankha
`Attorney For Applicant
`Reg. No. 33,802
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`Lipton, Weinberger & Husick
`36 Greenleigh Drive
`Sewell, NJ 08080
`Phone: 856-266-5145
`Fax: 856-374-0246
`Email: ash @ipprocurement.com
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