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.
Claims 1 and 31 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by He et al. (hereinafter “He”), US Pub. No. 2023/0222962.
Regarding claim 1, He teaches a display panel (Figs. 17-18, [0034], comprising a substrate (fig. 18, substrate 1) and drive arrays disposed on one side of the substrate (Fig. 18, circuit layer 2, light emitting shift circuit 3, pixel circuit 4) and comprising transistors (Figs. 17-18, control transistors M0+); and shielding structures disposed on one side of the substrate facing the drive arrays (Figs. 18-20, bottom light-shielding layer, [0086]); wherein each of the shielding structures comprises at least one shielding sub-structure ([0086]), and a shielding sub-structure among the at least one shielding sub-structure at least partially overlaps a channel region of a respective one of the transistors ([0086,0089]); and the shielding sub-structure is connected to a potential signal terminal ([0090,0091,0092], layer 18 receives power voltage or ground voltage).
Regarding claim 31, it is a display device of claim 1 and is rejected on the same grounds presented above.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-30 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: None of the prior art, either singularly or in combination, teaches or fairly suggests the specific elements comprising the specific combination included in the dependent claims above.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure:
Yamazaki et al. (US Pub. No. 2023/0341736) teaches multiple transistors including light shielding layers.
Yamazaki et al. (US Pub. No. 2015/0171115) teaches separate back-gate electrodes associated with separate transistors.
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/KENNETH B LEE JR/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2625
