Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Applicant’s submission, filed 2 December 2025, has been entered and acknowledged by the examiner.
Applicant's arguments filed 2 December 2025 have been fully considered but they are not persuasive.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(a)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim 1 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Park et al. (USPN 2020/0111851).
With regard to claim 1,
Park et al. disclose an electronic device, comprising: a display device where the display device comprises: a substrate (substrate) that includes a display area (portion of substrate less those corresponding to 200) and a subsidiary area (portion of substrate corresponding to 200) adjacent to the display area in plan view; a first pixel driving unit (120a) disposed in the display area; a light-emitting element (310) disposed in the display area and connected to the first pixel driving unit; a plurality of sensor driving units (120c) disposed in the subsidiary area; and a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements (200) disposed in the subsidiary area and connected to the plurality of sensor driving units, respectively (see figure 1).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-14 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter: the prior art does not disclose nor render obvious, in combination with the other limitations of the claims, a display device where the sensor driving units and conversion elements are spaced apart in plan view or disposed in disparate areas, or where the conversion element overlaps the scan driver. Claims 2, 3 would therefore be allowed if rewritten in independent form.
Claims 15-21 are allowed.
The following is an examiner’s statement of reasons for allowance: the prior art does not disclose nor render obvious, in combination with the other limitations of the claims, a display device where the conversion element overlaps the scan driver, as defined. Claim 15 is therefore allowed. Claim 15 is therefore allowed. Claims 16-21 are allowed due to their dependence upon claim 15.
Response to Arguments
While the applicant argues sensor stack 200 and portions other than 200 are stacked vertically and therefore not adjacent in plan view, the examiner maintains that, as in the rejection above, the portions of the substrate corresponding to 200 and those portions of the substrate less those corresponding are adjacent to one another.
Conclusion
THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL. Applicant is reminded of the extension of time policy as set forth in 37 CFR 1.136(a).
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/CHRISTOPHER M RAABE/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2875