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`UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`CONF {MATION NO.
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`12/571,564
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`10/01/2009
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`Kenta ENDO
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`501.45278VX2
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`20457
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`7590
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`03/27/2013
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`ANTONELLLTERRY, STOUT&KRAUS,LLP
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`SHAPIRO, LEONID
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`2699
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`MAIL DATE
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`03/27/2013
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`PAPER NUMBER
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`DELIVERY MODE
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`PAPER
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`Please find below and/or attached an Office communication concerning this application or proceeding.
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`The time period for reply, if any, is set in the attached communication.
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`PTOL—90A (Rev. 04/07)
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`Office Action Summary
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`Application No.
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`Applicant(s)
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` 12/571,564 ENDO ET AL.
`Examiner
`Art Unit
`LEONID SHAPIRO
`2699
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`-- The MAILING DA TE of this communication appears on the cover sheet with the correspondence address --
`Period for Reply
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`A SHORTENED STATUTORY PERIOD FOR REPLY IS SET TO EXPIRE 3 MONTH(S) OR THIRTY (30) DAYS,
`WHICHEVER IS LONGER, FROM THE MAILING DATE OF THIS COMMUNICATION.
`Extensions of time may be available under the provisions of 37 CFR1. 136(a).
`In no event however may a reply be timely filed
`after SIX () MONTHS from the mailing date of this communication.
`If NO period for reply is specified above, the maximum statutory period will apply and will expire SIX (6) MONTHS from the mailing date of this communication.
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`- Failure to reply within the set or extended period for reply will, by statute, cause the application to become ABANDONED (35 U.S.C. § 133).
`Any reply received by the Office later than three months after the mailing date of this communication, even if timely filed, may reduce any
`earned patent term adjustment. See 37 CFR 1.704(b).
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`Status
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`1)|Zl Responsive to communication(s) filed on 18 January 2013.
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`2a)|:l This action is FINAL.
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`2b)IXI This action is non-final.
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`3)I:I An election was made by the applicant in response to a restriction requirement set forth during the interview on
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`; the restriction requirement and election have been incorporated into this action.
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`4)|:l Since this application is in condition for allowance except for formal matters, prosecution as to the merits is
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`closed in accordance with the practice under Exparte Quay/e, 1935 CD. 11, 453 O.G. 213.
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`Disposition of Claims
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`5)IXI Claim(s) 14-17is/are pending in the application.
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`5a) Of the above claim(s) 14 and 15 is/are withdrawn from consideration.
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`6)|:| Claim(s)_ is/are allowed.
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`7)|Xl Claim(s) 1_6and 17is/are rejected.
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`8)I:I Claim(s)_ is/are objected to.
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`9)I:I Claim((s)
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`are subject to restriction and/or election requirement.
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`Application Papers
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`10)|:| The specification is objected to by the Examiner.
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`11)|:I The drawing(s) filed on _ is/are: a)I:I accepted or b)I:I objected to by the Examiner.
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`Applicant may not request that any objection to the drawing(s) be held in abeyance. See 37 CFR 1.85(a).
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`Priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119
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`12)|X| Acknowledgment is made of a claim for foreign priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119(a)-(d) or (f).
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`a)lZl All
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`b)|:l Some * c)I:I None of:
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`1.IXI Certified copies of the priority documents have been received.
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`2.|:l Certified copies of the priority documents have been received in Application No. _
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`3.I:I Copies of the certified copies of the priority documents have been received in this National Stage
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`application from the International Bureau (PCT Rule 17.2(a)).
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`* See the attached detailed Office action for a list of the certified copies not received.
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`Attachment(s)
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`1) IZI Notice of References Cited (PTO-892)
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`2) E Information Disclosure Statement(s) (PTO/SB/08)
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`US. Patent and Trademark Office
`PTOL-326 (Rev. 09-12)
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`3) I] Interview Summary (PTO-413)
`Paper No(s)/Mai| Date.
`4) D Other:
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`Office Action Summary
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`Part of Paper No./Mai| Date 20130327
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`Application/Control Number: 12/571 ,564
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`Art Unit: 2699
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`Election/Restrictions
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`Applicant’s election without traverse of 01/18/13 in the reply filed on 10/24/12
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`is acknowledged.
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`Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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`The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102
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`that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
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`A person shall be entitled to a patent unless —
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`(e) the invention was described in (1) an application for patent, published under section
`122(b), by another filed in the United States before the invention by the applicant for patent or
`(2) a patent granted on an application for patent by another filed in the United States before
`the invention by the applicant for patent, except that an international application filed under
`the treaty defined in section 351 (a) shall have the effects for purposes of this subsection of an
`application filed in the United States only if the international application designated the United
`States and was published under Article 21(2) of such treaty in the English language.
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`1.
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`Claim 16-17 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(e) as being anticipated by
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`Shin (2004/0207649 A1).
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`As to claim 16 Shin teaches a display device which displays a black
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`image by periodically inserting the black image, wherein a voltage of video signal
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`lines which correspond to a black image displayed by insertion is set to a value
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`different from a voltage of the video signal lines at the time of performing a black
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`image display as an image (fig. 30, item 342, pars. 0059-0060, clams 1, 4).
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`As to claim 17 Shin teaches the different value is set lower than voltage of
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`the video signal lines at the time of the displaying the black image (fig/ 3, item
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`342) which constitutes an image displayed by insertion assumes a positive
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`polarity and higher than voltage of the video signal lines at the time of the
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`displaying the black image which constitutes an image when the polarity of video
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`immediately before the black image displayed by insertion assumes a negative
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`polarity (fig. 3C, items 334, 342).
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`Examiner, Art Unit 2629
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`/Wi||iam L Boddie/
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`Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 2699
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