DETAILED ACTION
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 1 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by CHOI et al. (US PG Pub 2018/0102400, hereinafter Choi).
Regarding claim 1, figures 4 and 7 of Choi disclose a display device comprising:
a substrate (110);
a first voltage line (172) in a first metal layer on the substrate and extending in a first direction;
a horizontal gate line (152) in a second metal layer on the first metal layer and extending in a second direction crossing the first direction;
a pixel circuit of a first pixel (shown in figure 4) and a pixel circuit of a second pixel (pixel adjacent to that in figure 4 in the Y-direction) in the first metal layer, the second metal layer, and an active layer (131) between the first and second metal layers; and
a shielding line (158) connected to the first voltage line and extending in the second direction, the shielding line being located between the pixel circuit of the first pixel and the pixel circuit of the second pixel (irrespective of which parts of the adjacent pixel circuits are taken, some parts of the adjacent pixels will always be on opposites sides of the shielding electrode, e.g. T5 of adjacent pixels).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-9 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.
Claims 10-20 are allowed.
Regarding claim 10, the prior art of record, either singularly or in combination, does not disclose or suggest the combination of limitations including “a first shielding line in the first metal layer and integrally formed with the first voltage line; and a second shielding line in the second metal layer and overlapping the first shielding line”.
Regarding claim 15, the prior art of record, either singularly or in combination, does not disclose or suggest the combination of limitations including “the shielding line being integrally formed with the first voltage line, and located between the pixel circuit of the first pixel and the pixel circuit of the second pixel”.
Regarding claim 18, the prior art of record, either singularly or in combination, does not disclose or suggest the combination of limitations including “a first shielding line in the first metal layer and integrally formed with the first voltage line; and a second shielding line in the second metal layer and overlapping the first shielding line”.
Conclusion
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/YU-HSI D SUN/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2817