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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 .
Election/Restrictions
Applicant’s election without traverse of Group II in the reply filed on 8/4/26 is acknowledged.
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) 20 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Bibl et al US 2014/0367633.
Pertaining to claim 20, Bibl teaches a display device, comprising:
a display panel [0005];
an active area 104 and a non-active area (region encompassing element 109); and
a plurality of pixels 106 arranged in the active area, the plurality of pixels forming a matrix see Figure 1A, wherein:
each pixel 106 comprises a plurality of light emitting diodes 400 arranged in rows and columns, the plurality of light emitting diodes for emitting light;
the plurality of pixels comprises a first pixel 108 and a second pixel 108 adjacent to the first pixel;
at least one light emitting diode 400 of the first pixel 108 is separated by a first distance from a light emitting diode at a corresponding row and a corresponding column of the second pixel 108 see Figure 1A marked up below;
each of the other light emitting diodes 400 of the first pixel 108 is separated by a second distance from a light emitting diode 400 at a corresponding row and a corresponding column of the second pixel 108; and
the first distance is different from the second distance See Figures 3C and 4A marked up below.
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Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 15-19, and 21 are allowed.
The following is an examiner’s statement of reasons for allowance: The primary reason for the allowance of the claims is the inclusion of the limitation(s): Pertaining to claim 15, the prior art does not teach or suggest wherein each of other light emitting diodes of the first pixel is disposed in the first electrode area of the corresponding electrode area of the first pixel but not in the second electrode area of the corresponding electrode area of the first pixel, in all of the claims which is not found in the prior art references.
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Conclusion
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/NICHOLAS J TOBERGTE/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2817
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