DETAILED ACTION
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
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.
Claim(s) 1-11 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Lui (US 2019/0341553 A1)
Regarding Claims 1-4, Lui teaches a material represented by A-5 (page 5):
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A-5 reads on applicants’ Formula 1 and 1-6 wherein Ar = biphenyl; X1-X3 = N; Het1 = CF1-A bonded at A2, Y1 = O, a1 = 0; Het2 = CF1-C bonded at C2, H1-H2 = H;
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(per claims 1-3).
A-5 is identical to 1-118 (per claim 4)
Regarding Claims 5-11, Lui teaches an organic optoelectronic device 100 according to an example embodiment includes an anode 120 and a cathode 110 and facing each other and an organic layer 105 disposed between the anode 120 and the cathode 110 (paragraph 118). The light emitting layer includes A-5 (paragraph 122) (per claims 5-6). The light emitting layer 130 may include the first compound and the second compound as each phosphorescent host (paragraph 124) (per claim 7).
The light emitting layer contains a first compound (A-5) and a second compound (paragraph 79). The second compound can be represented by B-15 (page 31):
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B-15 reads on applicants’ CF2 wherein Ar21 = fluorene; Ar22 = terphenyl; R21-R22 = H. A-5 and B-1 in the light emitting layer is viewed as a composition (per claims 8 10).
B-15 is identical to applicants’ 2-72 (per claim 9).
The first compound for an organic optoelectronic device and the second compound for an organic optoelectronic device may be included in a weight ratio of, for example, about 1:99 to about 99:1 (paragraph 105) (per claim 11).
Response to Amendment
New art is applied in a 2nd non-final rejection.
Conclusion
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/GREGORY D CLARK/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 1786
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