CTNF 19/041,436 CTNF 80468 DETAILED ACTION Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status 07-03-aia AIA 15-10-aia 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 07-07-aia AIA 07-07 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 – 07-08-aia AIA (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. 07-15 AIA Claim s 1-2 and 20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102( a)(1 ) as being anticipated by Lee (US Doc. No. 20160372534) . Regarding claim 1, Lee discloses a display device (Figure 1, element 10) comprising: a substrate (100) including a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area (see paragraph 0059 – note that the non-display area ‘NA’ surrounds the display area ‘AA’); insulating layers disposed on the substrate (see Figures 4 and 5, layers 103 and 107); pixels disposed in the display area (Figure 1, element[s] ‘P’); first power lines disposed in a first direction, each of the first power lines extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, the first power lines connected to the pixels and to provide a first driving voltage (shown in Figure 1, element 30 – specifically note that the vertical lines on each of the left and right side of the display device 10 wherein the first direction is the X [left/right] direction and the second direction is the Y [up/down] direction and wherein the first power line 30 supplied a first voltage ELVSS); a second power line (40) including first lines (PL) disposed in the display area (AA) and connected to the pixels (P) and a second line connected to the first lines, the second line (41) disposed in the non-display area (NA), the second power line to provide a second driving voltage (ELVDD), the second driving voltage having a lower voltage level than that of the first driving voltage (see paragraph 0066); and a detection line disposed in the non-display area and surrounding at least a portion of the display area (also reads on Figure 1, element 30), wherein the detection line includes: extension lines each extending in the second direction and spaced apart from each other in the first direction by the display area (Figure 3, elements 30a and 30b); a bridge line extending in the first direction, connected to the first power lines, and including end portions (50); and connection lines connecting the end portions of the bridge line to corresponding ones of the extension lines (CNT; see also paragraph 0078 – note that the contact holes bridge between the first power line and the and the end portions), and the second line intersects the connection lines in a plan view (see paragraph 0066). Regarding claim 2, Lee discloses all of the limitations of claim 1 as discussed in the claim 1 rejection above and further that the extension lines are disposed further apart from the display area than the second line, and the bridge line is disposed closer to the display area than the second line (as shown in Figures 1 & 3 – note that extension lines 30a/b are further apart than the second line 41 and the bridge line 50 is closer to the display area than the second line 41). Claim 20 has limitations similar to those treated in the above rejection of claim 1, and is met by the reference as discussed above. Claim 20, however, also recites an electronic device comprising: a processor configured to provide image data and a display brightness value (Figure 1, element 20); a display panel connected to the processor and configured to display an image (10); and a panel driving unit configured to receive the image data and the display bright value and drive the display panel based on the image data and the display brightness value (20) . Allowable Subject Matter 12-151-08 AIA 07-43 12-51-08 Claim s 3-19 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. Conclusion 07-96 AIA The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. Lee (US Doc. No. 20170263880) discloses a substrate for a display apparatus including multiple power lines and detection lines. 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