Appeal No. 96-0236
Application 08/187,364
11 responsive to this sum and to control signals CS for3
generating control voltage CV (Transl. p. 18, line 15 to p.
19, line 8).
Regarding claim 1, the examiner correctly notes that
Hoshino fails to disclose using a picture element in the form
of a display element connected in series with a two-terminal
non-linear device (Suppl. Answer at 3, lines 10-11). To cure
this deficiency, the examiner relies on Kuijk, which discloses
a matrix display device wherein each picture element includes
a liquid crystal pixel element 12 connected in series with a
non-linear switching element 15, which may be of the MIM type
(Fig. 1a; p. 3, lines 6-9). Appellant does not challenge the
examiner's conclusion that it would have been obvious in view
of Kuijk to implement each of Hoshino's picture elements as a
non-linear switching element in series with a liquid crystal
pixel element. Instead, Appellant challenges the examiner's
following argument regarding the requirement of the claim for
"a sensing circuit . . . arranged to provide a control signal
indicative of electrical current flowing in at least one
3The name of this circuit is given in the translation at
p. 36, under the heading "Figure 12."
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