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 .
This office action is in response to the amendment filed on 04/23/2026. Claims 1-17 remain pending with claim 12 has been amended.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claims 12-15 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor (or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention.
RE claim 12, the limitation of that “a plurality of pixel units including a first pixel and a second pixel that emits a same color as the first pixel” in lines 2-3 is vague and rendering claim 12 indefinite. Are first pixel and second pixel among the plurality of pixel units? Or simply, is one pixel unit of the plurality of pixel units including first pixel and second pixel? Correction is required.
Claims 13-17 are depending on claim 12 and therefore are rejected on the same basis as claim 12.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-11 are allowable over the prior art of record because none of the prior art of record teaches or fairly suggests the limitation of that, an output unit configured to output a first scan signal and a second scan signal based on a first selection scan signal, a first clock signal, and a control signal, wherein the output unit includes: a second controller configured to control a voltage of the first output node and a voltage of the second output node, output the voltage of the first output node as the first scan signal, and output the voltage of the second output node as the second scan signal, based on the first clock signal, a first voltage, and a second voltage being lower than the first voltage, in the environment of claim 1. The closest prior art of record is Lee (US 2022/0366836). Lee (US 2022/0366836) teaches that a scan driver including a plurality of stages, wherein a n-th stage among the plurality of stages comprising a first input unit controlling a voltage of a first node in response to a previous carry signal, a scan output unit outputting a current scan signal corresponding to a scan clock signal in response to the voltage of the first node, a first switching unit controlling a voltage of a second node in response to the previous carry signal, a sensing output unit outputting a current sensing signal corresponding to a sensing clock signal in response to the voltage of the second node, a carry output unit outputting a current carry signal corresponding to a carry clock signal in response to the voltage of the second node, and a second switching unit controlling the voltage of the second node in response to the sensing clock signal or the carry clock signal.
Claims 14-17 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. Claims 14-17 are allowable because none of the prior art of record teaches or fairly suggests the limitation of that, a second driving transistor connected between the first power line and a sixth node and configured to generate a second driving current flowing from the first power line to the second power line via the second light emitting diode, in the environment of claim 14.
Conclusion
Applicant's amendment necessitated the new ground(s) of rejection (112 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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/FRED TZENG/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2625
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June 26, 2026
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