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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 .
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Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
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 and 28 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Yoshida et al. (US 2012/0229712 A1; hereinafter, “Yoshida”, of record).
Regarding claims 1 and 28:
Yoshida discloses a display panel, comprising:
a substrate [0014] and a drive circuit layer (e.g., Fig. 4 and [0020]) disposed on
the substrate, wherein:
the substrate comprises a display region 600 (Figs. 3-4 and [0083]and a non-display region (outside of region “600” in Figs. 3-4), the drive circuit layer comprises: a plurality of pixel drive circuits P(n, m) (Fig. 2 and [0085]) disposed in the display region and a plurality of first scan signal lines GLn (Fig. 2 and [0085]) disposed in the display region and the non-display region (Figs. 3-4), the first scan signal lines are extended at least partially in a first direction (horizontal in Figs. 3-4), the pixel drive circuits P(n, m) are electrically connected with the first scan signal lines GLn (Fig. 2), and the first scan signal lines (e.g., Gln+1 in Fig. 2) connected with adjacent rows of pixel drive circuits are electrically isolated (Fig. 4);
the drive circuit layer further comprises first signal lines (see “first signal lines” in Fig. 4 above) located in the non-display region and second signal lines (see “second signal lines” in Fig. 4 above) corresponding to the first signal lines, the first signal lines are electrically connected with the first scan signal lines (see “scan signal lines” in Fig. 4 above) and configured to provide a signal to the first scan signal line, an orthographic projection of a first signal line on the substrate is at least partially overlapped with an orthographic projection of a corresponding second signal line on the substrate (e.g., see “overlap” and “reference lien for overlap…” in Fig. 4 above); and
a resistance of the first signal lines electrically connected to adjacent first scan signal lines are substantially equal and/or a capacitance value between the first signal lines electrically
connected to adjacent first scan signal lines and corresponding second signal lines are
substantially equal (e.g., [0055-0058] wherein variability in output signals are reduced due to influence by capacitance branch lines, i.e., potential variations via parasitic capacitance is reduced; accordingly, a parasitic capacitance value between the first and second signal lines are substantially equal); and
re claim 28, a display apparatus (Fig. 1), comprising: the display panel of claim 1.
Therefore, Yoshida anticipates claims 1 and 28 (both as interpreted)
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-19 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:
Claims 2-19 are allowed primarily because the prior art of record cannot anticipate or render obvious the limitations in claim 2 (when combined with claim 1), and claims 3-19 depend from claim 2.
Remarks
Objections to the drawings, title, specification and claims are withdrawn in view of the amendments.
The rejection under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) have been withdrawn in view of the amendment.
Applicant remarks have been carefully reviewed and considered; however, they are moot in view of the new interpretation of the prior art necessitated by the amendment(s) overcoming the prior rejection under 35 U.S.C. 112(b).
Conclusion
Applicant's amendment necessitated the new ground(s) of rejection presented in this Office action. Accordingly, THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL. See MPEP § 706.07(a). Applicant is reminded of the extension of time policy as set forth in 37 CFR 1.136(a).
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/LEX H MALSAWMA/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2892
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