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 .
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(s) 1 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Lee et al. (hereinafter Lee, US 2021/0202905).
In regards to independent claim 1, Lee teaches a display device, comprising:
a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area (Lee, Fig. 6, DA vs NDA);
a substrate (Lee, Fig. 8, Item 110);
a plurality of pixels disposed in the display area (Lee, Fig. 8, Item T, [0055], “The active layer ACT can be provided in a pixel area of the substrate 110”);
a grounding part disposed in the non-display area (Lee, Fig. 6 Item 200); and
a flexible printed circuit board disposed in the non-display area to apply a driving signal to drive the pixels (Lee, Fig. 6 Item 180, display driving circuit 180, flexible circuit film 181), wherein:
the non-display area comprises a first portion, a second portion, a third portion, and a fourth portion (Lee, Fig 6. Left, Bottom, Right, Top, of NDA area) , wherein
the flexible printed circuit board being disposed in the fourth portion (Lee, Fig. 6, Item 180 is on top portion of NDA), and
the second portion being disposed opposite from the fourth portion and being spaced-apart from the fourth portion by the display area (Lee, Fig. 6 Item 200 on bottom of NDA, the DA is between the top and bottom of NDA, and
the grounding part comprises a first ground pattern and a second ground pattern that are arranged alternately in the second portion of the non-display area (Lee, Fig.6 Item 210 vs 230, grounding line 200 contains convex 230 and concave 210 parts that alternate along the bottom of the NDA).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claim 11-20 are allowed.
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter: The prior art fails to disclose or teach an obvious combination of the following limitations when taken with the claim as a whole:
a first ground pattern and a second ground pattern alternately and repeatedly arranged in the non-display area, wherein
the first signal line and the first ground pattern overlap each other in a thickness direction and each receive a first voltage, and
the second signal line and the second ground pattern overlap each other in the thickness direction and each receive a second voltage having a level different from a level of the first voltage.
Claims 2-10 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.
Conclusion
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/WILLIAM C TRAPANESE/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2812