DETAILED ACTION
Notice of 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 .
This action is in response to amendments/remarks for application 18874562 filed on 01/07/2026. Claims 1-9, 14-20, 25, 26 and 31 are presented for examination.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of 35 U.S.C. 112(a):
(a) IN GENERAL.—The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor or joint inventor of carrying out the invention.
Claims 6 and 26 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(a) as failing to comply with the written description requirement. The claims contain subject matter which was not described in the specification in such a way as to reasonably convey to one skilled in the relevant art that the inventor or a joint inventor at the time the application was filed, had possession of the claimed invention.
In the amendments submitted on 01/07/2026, Applicant incorporated the previously objected dependent claim 12, which includes limitations regarding “second initialization circuit,” into independent claim 1. However, claims 6 and 26 recites limitations regarding “first initialization circuit.” Upon inspecting the disclosure of the instant application, circuits including the “first initialization circuit,” i.e., Figs. 7-11 and 22, and circuits including the “second initialization circuit,” i.e., Figs. 25-33, are mutually exclusive and the disclosure of the instant application does not seem to teach a circuit including both the “first initialization circuit” and the “second initialization circuit.” Hence, the subject matters of claims 6 and 26 was not described in the specification in such a way as to reasonably convey to one skilled in the relevant art that the inventor or a joint inventor at the time the application was filed, had possession of the claimed invention.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-5, 7-9, 14-20, 25 and 31 are allowed. The following is an examiner’s statement of reasons for allowance:
The prior art, whether considered alone or in combination, fail to disclose the technical features of the claimed invention in context as a whole. The instant application is directed to a pixel circuit that compensate for threshold voltage deviation for different transistors. The previously cited prior art Zhu et al. (US Patent Pub. No. 2017/0270867 A1) teaches similarly a pixel circuit comprising a light emitting element, a driving circuit, a first energy storage circuit, a first control circuit and a data writing-in circuit (Zhu, Fig. 2B and Non-Final Office Action mailed on 10/07/2025 for more detail). However, the further inclusion of the third node and the different components connected to the third node as well as relative to the other components of the pixel circuit in the manner claimed as a whole, is not sufficiently taught or suggested in the prior art. An updated search was performed.
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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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/DONG HUI LIANG/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2629