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 .
Drawings
The drawings are objected to under 37 CFR 1.83(a). The drawings must show every feature of the invention specified in the claims. Therefore, for claim 1, the
a first lower line disposed on the substrate and extending in a first direction,
; a first upper line disposed on the first lower line (with respect to the substrate is not shown in the drawings), extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and crossing the first lower line,
and a first floating electrode disposed between the first lower line and the first upper line,
the first floating electrode including: a crossing portion overlapping the first lower line and the first upper line;
a first portion extending from the crossing portion of the first floating electrode in the second direction;
and a second portion extending from the crossing portion of the first floating electrode in the first direction,
wherein a length of the first portion of the first floating electrode in the second direction is longer than a length of the second portion of the first floating electrode in the first direction.
must be shown or the feature(s) canceled from the claim(s).
None of the features of: the first lower line with respect to the substrate, the first upper line with respect to the substrate and the recitations regarding the first floating electrode are shown in any of the drawings. All the claimed features should be clearly shown. No new matter should be entered.
Corrected drawing sheets in compliance with 37 CFR 1.121(d) are required in reply to the Office action to avoid abandonment of the application. Any amended replacement drawing sheet should include all of the figures appearing on the immediate prior version of the sheet, even if only one figure is being amended. The figure or figure number of an amended drawing should not be labeled as “amended.” If a drawing figure is to be canceled, the appropriate figure must be removed from the replacement sheet, and where necessary, the remaining figures must be renumbered and appropriate changes made to the brief description of the several views of the drawings for consistency. Additional replacement sheets may be necessary to show the renumbering of the remaining figures. Each drawing sheet submitted after the filing date of an application must be labeled in the top margin as either “Replacement Sheet” or “New Sheet” pursuant to 37 CFR 1.121(d). If the changes are not accepted by the examiner, the applicant will be notified and informed of any required corrective action in the next Office action. The objection to the drawings will not be held in abeyance.
Specification
The disclosure is objected to because of the following informalities:
In [0006]: A display device according to embodiments may include a substrate, a first lower line disposed on the substrate and extending in a first direction, the first lower line that applies a first voltage having a first level to a light emitting element, a first upper line disposed on the first lower line, extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and crossing the first lower line, the first upper line that applies a second voltage having a second level different from the first level of the first voltage, and a first floating electrode disposed between the first lower line and the first upper line, the first floating electrode including a crossing portion overlapping the first lower line and the first upper line, a first portion extending from the crossing portion of the first floating electrode in the second direction, and a second portion extending from the crossing portion of the first floating electrode in the first direction, wherein a length of the first portion of the first floating electrode in the second direction may be longer than a length of the second portion of the first floating electrode in the first direction,
that pertains to the limitations of claim 1, the specification does not clearly describe nor label the elements as claimed. Appropriate correction is required.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of 35 U.S.C. 112(a):
(a) IN GENERAL.—The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor or joint inventor of carrying out the invention.
The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112:
The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor of carrying out his invention.
Claims 1-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(a) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), first paragraph, as failing to comply with the written description requirement. The claim(s) contains subject matter which was not described in the specification in such a way as to reasonably convey to one skilled in the relevant art that the inventor or a joint inventor, or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the inventor(s), at the time the application was filed, had possession of the claimed invention.
In claim 1, the limitations of:
a first lower line disposed on the substrate and extending in a first direction,
; a first upper line disposed on the first lower line (with respect to the substrate is not shown in the drawings), extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and crossing the first lower line,
and a first floating electrode disposed between the first lower line and the first upper line,
the first floating electrode including: a crossing portion overlapping the first lower line and the first upper line;
a first portion extending from the crossing portion of the first floating electrode in the second direction;
and a second portion extending from the crossing portion of the first floating electrode in the first direction,
wherein a length of the first portion of the first floating electrode in the second direction is longer than a length of the second portion of the first floating electrode in the first direction.
pertaining to first lower line with reference to the substrate, the first upper line, and the first floating electrode are not clearly described in the specification so that one skilled in the art can recognize what is claimed.
The original claim lacks written description support because the claim defines the invention in functional language specifying a desired result but the disclosure fails to sufficiently identify how the invention is formed, the function is performed or the result is achieved.
The limitations are just stated in the specification but no drawings or clear description is available for them, as to where these elements are located and how each of them are associated as has been claimed in claim 1?
MPEP 2163.03: The written description requirement is not necessarily met when the claim language appears in ipsis verbis in the specification. "Even if a claim is supported by the specification, the language of the specification, to the extent possible, must describe the claimed invention so that one skilled in the art can recognize what is claimed.
Claims 2-20 are rejected because of their dependency status from claim 1.
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)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim 1 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by
Ono (US 20150242013 A1, US 9477362 B2 is relied upon in the rejection)
Regarding claim 1, Ono teaches a display device (at least Fig.1) comprising: a substrate (10); a first lower line (row direction wiring) disposed on the substrate and extending in a first direction, the first lower line that applies a first voltage having a first level to a light emitting element; a first upper line (column direction wiring) disposed on the first lower line, extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and crossing the first lower line, the first upper line that applies a second voltage having a second level different from the first level of the first voltage; (see in claim 1 of Ono:
row-direction wiring and a second layer including column-direction wiring, wherein said touch screen further comprises floating wiring formed between said row-direction wiring and said column-direction wiring in planar view in an intersection portion of said row-direction wiring and said column-direction wiring);
and a first floating electrode (floating wiring in claim 1 of Ono) disposed between the first lower line and the first upper line (see in Ono: floating wiring formed between said row-direction wiring and said column-direction), the first floating electrode including: a crossing portion overlapping the first lower line and the first upper line (21a is floating wiring in Fig.6,15,21 wherein 21 and 31 are the row/column wirings); a first portion extending from the crossing portion of the first floating electrode in the second direction; and a second portion extending from the crossing portion of the first floating electrode in the first direction,
wherein a length of the first portion of the first floating electrode in the second direction is longer than a length of the second portion of the first floating electrode in the first direction (since the floating electrode shape is not a square, and it is a rectangle as shown below:
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Other art
JP 2006100045 A discloses:
A plurality of wiring layers having first wirings are stacked so that the upper and lower first wirings overlap with each other with an insulating layer interposed therebetween.
CN 111857406 A, US 20140152910 A1, US 20140145977 A1
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/Fatima N Farokhrooz/
Examiner, Art Unit 2875