DETAILED ACTION
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 17 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102 (a)(1) as being anticipated by Hen (US 2003/0047742).
Regarding claim 1, Hen shows a light emitting chip (LED chip 401 in FIG. 13 and [0038]), comprising: a substrate (PCB 405): a plurality of light emitting units arranged in an array (see FIG. 12 with respect to FIG. 13) on the substrate (PCB 405). wherein each of the light emitting units comprises at least one first electrode (common electrode 701) arranged on the substrate (PCB 405) and a plurality of epitaxial wafers (wafer 805 in FIG. 13 and [0038]) arranged in an array and at least two of the epitaxial wafers have different colors (see FIG. 13): wherein several epitaxial wafers in the epitaxial wafers share one of the at least first electrode (common electrode 701).
Regarding claim 2, Hen shows a light emitting chip (LED chip 401 in FIG. 13 and [0038]), comprising, wherein at least two epitaxial wafers of different colors ( blue or green in FIG. 13) in the plurality of epitaxial wafers share one of the at least one first electrode (common electrode 701).
Regarding claim 3, Hen shows a light emitting chip (LED chip 401 in FIG. 13 and [0038]), comprising, wherein all of the epitaxial wafers (wafer 805) share one of the at least one first electrode (electrode 701).
Regarding claim 4, Hen shows a light emitting chip (LED chip 401 in FIG. 13 and [0038]), comprising, wherein all the epitaxial wafers (wafer 805) are divided into several groups (see FIG. 12), each of the groups comprises at least two epitaxial wafers of different colors (color blue, green and red) , and each of the group shares one of the at least one first electrode (common electrode 701).
Regarding claim 5, Hen shows a light emitting chip (LED chip 401 in FIG. 13 and [0038]), comprising, wherein the epitaxial wafers comprise at least a blue epitaxial (blue in FIG. 13) wafer and a green epitaxial wafer (color green in FIG. 13). and the blue epitaxial wafer and the green epitaxial wafer share one of the at least one first electrode (common electrode 701).
Regarding claim 6, Hen shows a light emitting chip (LED chip 401 in FIG. 13 and [0038]), comprising, wherein each of the light emitting units further comprises a conductive layer (conductive 901 and 902), and the conductive layer is electrically connected to the plurality of epitaxial wafers (wafer 805) and the at least one first electrode (common electrode 701).
Regarding claim 17, Hen shows a light emitting device (LED chip 401 in FIG. 13 and [0038]), comprising, a light emitting chip wherein the light emitting chip comprises a substrate ( PCB in FIG. 13), a plurality of light emitting units ( blue , green and yellow light units in FIG. 13) arranged in array on the substrate (substrate 701), where each of the light emitting units comprises at least first electrode arranged on the substrate and a plurality of epitaxial wafer ( wafer 805) arranged in an array, and at least two of the epitaxial wafers have different color (blue, green in FIG. 13), wherein several epitaxial wafers in the epitaxial wafers share on of the at least first electrode (common electrode 701).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 18-20 are allowed.
Claims 7-16 are 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.
Conclusion
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/ELIAS ULLAH/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2893