DETAILED ACTION
Drawings
The drawings are objected to under 37 CFR 1.84(u) because “[w]here only a single view is used in an application to illustrate the claimed invention, it must not be numbered and the abbreviation "FIG." must not appear.”
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 1-9 and 11-12 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. It is unclear as to what is meant by the phrase “substituted substituents”. Perhaps it should be changed to “substituents”. In addition, the chemical structure P012 in claim 10 is missing a bond. Other claims are indefinite by dependency.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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 –
(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.
Claims 1-7 and 11-12 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by WO 2021/261851 A1 to Lee et al.
Regarding claim 1, Lee et al. discloses an OLED comprising an anode, a plurality of organic material layers, a cathode, and a capping layer, in that order, wherein the capping layer comprises a compound exemplified by
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These compounds are representative of the claimed compound and claim 1 is therefore anticipated. See MPEP § 2131.02(II). Claims 2-7 and 11-12 are also anticipated.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claim 10 is 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 8-9 would be allowable if rewritten to overcome the rejection(s) under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), 2nd paragraph, set forth in this Office action and to include all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter: The claimed compounds are not disclosed or suggested by the prior art of record.
Other Prior Art of Record
The compound of claim 1 and the device of claims 11-12 are disclosed by WO 2021/020799 A1 to Hee et al. (see compound 1-85 on page 18).
An example of the compound of claim 1 is disclosed by CN-111635410-A to Du et al. (see compound 316 on page 14), CN-108658980-A to Zhou et al. (see compound HT91 on page 6) and KR 2021/0133331-A.
KR 2021/0142561-A discloses a similar compound but has two amino centers.
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/VU A NGUYEN/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 1762