Appeal No. 1997-0627
Application 08/266,159
(Japanese unexamined patent publication)
Claims 1, 3, 4, 13 and 14 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Maekawa.
Claims 5, 6, 8, 10 and 15 through 17 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Maekawa in view of the admitted prior art of Figures 1 through 3.
Claim 9 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Maekawa in view
of the admitted prior art and Inoue.
Reference is made to the briefs and the answer for the respective positions of the appellants and
the examiner.
Although each of Figures 1, 3 and 8 of Maekawa discloses “a group of signal lines for feeding
signals to the driving elements . . . for each column of pixels and each driving element of a column is
connected to a selected one of said group, so that the driving elements of each adjacent pixel in a
column are driven by a different selected one of the signal lines from said group of signal lines,” the
examiner acknowledges (Answer, page 3) that “Figs. 1, 3 and 8 of Toshichi [sic, Maekawa] does [sic,
do] not disclose each of the gating signal lines is connected to the driving elements of a single row of
pixels.” The examiner turns to Figure 6 of Maekawa which teaches that each gating signal line is
connected to the driving elements of a single row of pixels. Notwithstanding the lack of a teaching in
Figure 6 of Maekawa of a group of signal lines feeding signals to the driving elements in each column of
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