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
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) 1-2 and 20 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Jinta et al. (US 2014/0284570, hereinafter, Jinta.)
In regard to claims 1 and 20, in figs. 2-4, Kinta discloses a plurality of light emitting elements respectively in a plurality of subpixels (see the abstract); and
a plurality of pixel driving circuits respectively in the plurality of subpixels configured to respectively drive the plurality of light emitting elements (fig. 3.);
wherein multiple pixel driving circuits of the plurality of pixel driving circuits
are arranged along a first direction (fig. 3);
a respective one of the pixel driving circuits comprises a third transistor;
a width, along the first direction, of a third anode of a third light emitting element in a respective third subpixel is no less than a distance, along the first direction,
between two adjacent third transistors in two adjacent pixel driving circuits of the multiple
pixel driving circuits (fig. 3.)
Regarding claim 20, see fig. 5.
Regarding claim 2, wherein the width, along the first direction of the third anode of the third light emitting element in the respective third subpixel is no less than a minimum distance, along the first direction, between gate electrodes of the two adjacent third transistors in the two adjacent pixel driving circuits (fig. 3.)
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made.
Claim(s) 3 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Jinta as applied to claim 1 above.
In regard to claim 3, Jinta discloses all of the claimed limitations as mentioned above. Jinta also shows the relationship of the dimensions of the elements in the whole circuit, except the exact arrangements as claimed. Thus, Jinta recognizes that there is a need for having the dimension at some values. The distance of the element is therefore a result-effective variable.
It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to vary, through routine optimization, the distance of the elements as Jinta has identified the thickness as a result-effective variable. Further, one of ordinary skill in the art would have had a reasonable expectation of success to arrive at a distance of the elements as claimed in order to achieve the desired connections among the layers. MPEP 2144.05.
Furthermore, the applicant has not presented persuasive evidence that the claimed thickness is for a particular purpose that is critical to the overall claimed invention (i.e., that the invention would not work without the specific claimed inventions.)
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 4-19 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 an examiner’s statement of reasons for allowance:
The prior art does not show a main portion, a first protrusion portion, and a second protrusion portion; wherein the first protrusion portion and the second protrusion portion can be intersected by a virtual straight line extending along the first direction. And, wherein third transistors respectively in
subpixels in a same row are controlled by a same gate line, and having gate electrodes of a
substantially same shape; and
an orthographic projection of the third anode of the third light emitting
element in the respective third subpixel on a base substrate at least partially overlaps with
orthographic projections of two third transistors respectively in two adjacent subpixels on the
base substrate.
Conclusion
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/NATHAN W HA/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2814