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 . Claims 1-21 are pending.
Response to Arguments
Applicant’s arguments have been considered but are moot because the new ground of rejection does not rely on any reference applied in the prior rejection of record for any teaching or matter specifically challenged in the argument.
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 1-21 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(a) as failing to comply with the written description requirement. The claims contains 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, at the time the application was filed, had possession of the claimed invention.
Regarding Claim 1. Claim 1 is amended to add the following subject matter:
“the first region includes a plurality of connection groups in each of which adjacent first initialization voltage lines are commonly connected, wherein
in the first region, the adjacent first initialization voltage lines commonly connected in a first connection group from the plurality of connection groups are disconnected from the adjacent first initialization voltage lines commonly connected in a second connection group, which is adjacent to the first connection group, from the plurality of connection groups”.
Applicant discloses the following support for the amended subject matter: (reference paragraph numbers in the Application PGPUB)
[0084] Referring to FIGS. 3 and 4 along with FIGS. 1 and 2, in the display panel 100 of this embodiment, voltage transmission lines TL that transmits the initialization voltage Vini can be arranged in a non-display region NA located on both sides of the display region AA, more specifically, on both sides, in the horizontal direction, of the display region AA.
[0088] In the display region AA of the display panel 100, the initialization voltage line VL extending along each horizontal line can be formed. The initialization voltage line VL is connected to the voltage transmission line TL, receives the initialization voltage Vini from the voltage transmission line TL, and transmits it to the pixels P of each horizontal line.
[0097] In this case, one end of the first initialization voltage line VL1 arranged in each horizontal line of the first region AA_HI1 can be connected to the first voltage transmission line TL1 adjacent to the first initialization voltage line VL1.
Each of the first initialization voltage lines (VL1) is connected [0097] to the first voltage transmission line (TL1). Those first initialization voltage lines (VL1), formed into a first connection group, are connected to those first initialization voltage lines (VL1), formed into a second connection group, via the first voltage transmission line (TL1).
There is insufficient support for the amended subject matter:
“the adjacent first initialization voltage lines commonly connected in a first connection group from the plurality of connection groups are disconnected from the adjacent first initialization voltage lines commonly connected in a second connection group”.
Claim 1 contains 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, at the time the application was filed, had possession of the claimed invention, therefore Claim 1 is rejected under 35 USC §112 (a) as new matter.
Regarding Claim 12. Claim 12 is amended to contain essentially the same subject matter as amended Claim 1. Claim 12 is also rejected under 35 USC §112(a) as containing new matter.
Regarding Claims 2-11, and 13-21. Claims 2-11 and 13-21 are rejected under 35 USC §112(a) as containing the new matter of their respective parent claim.
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). A shortened statutory period for reply to this final action is set to expire THREE MONTHS from the mailing date of this action. In the event a first reply is filed within TWO MONTHS of the mailing date of this final action and the advisory action is not mailed until after the end of the THREE-MONTH shortened statutory period, then the shortened statutory period will expire on the date the advisory action is mailed, and any nonprovisional extension fee (37 CFR 1.17(a)) pursuant to 37 CFR 1.136(a) will be calculated from the mailing date of the advisory action. In no event, however, will the statutory period for reply expire later than SIX MONTHS from the mailing date of this final action.
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/Douglas Wilson/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2622