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)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim(s) 1-19 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Tosu (UD 2021/0336151 A1.
Regarding Claims 1-19, Tosu teaches an OLED a light-emitting device: first electrode 101 and the second electrode 102, the EL layer 103 including the organic compound, Compound 54 (paragraph 268).
The light-emitting device material contains the proportion of carbon atoms forming a bond by the sp.sup.3 hybrid orbitals in the total number of carbon atoms in a molecule of the organic compound is higher than or equal to 10% and lower than or equal to 60% (paragraph 15). The above material can be represented by Compound 504 (page 48):
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Compound 54 shows A11 as a triazine group containing two cyclic groups (phenyl) substituted with tert-butyl groups; Ar12 is pyridine (azide group) group; L11 is phenyl group (3-1), R31 = a phenyl group; X11 = tert-butyl; a11 = 1; n11 =1. The molecular weight of Compound 504 is ~704; the molecular weight of X11 (4 tert-butyl groups) is ~228 which is ~32.4 % of the total molecular weight of Compound 54 (per claims 1, 9, 10, 13, 15, 19).
The device can emit a blue color (paragraph 284) (per claim 2).
The device may have various layers such as a hole-injection layer, a hole-transport layer, an electron-transport layer, an electron-injection layer, a carrier-blocking layer (e.g., a hole-blocking layer and an electron-blocking layer), an exciton-blocking layer, and a charge-generation layer can be employed (paragraph 274) (per claim 3).
Compound 54 can also be used as an electron transport layer material (paragraph 14) (per claim 4).
The electron transport layer may also contain a metal (paragraph 314) (per claim 5)
The refractive index of a layer containing the organic compound (Compound 54) is higher than or equal to 1.5 and lower than or equal to 1.75 (paragraph 166). The ordinary refractive index of a layer containing the organic compound with respect to light with a wavelength in the range from 455 nm to 465 nm (paragraph 17) (per claim 6).
The first electrode is reflective electrode (paragraph 371). Second electrode is transmissive (paragraph 356) (per claim 7).
A light-emitting apparatus including the light-emitting device (paragraph 61) (per claim 8).
A11 is a triazine,X21, X23, X25 = N ; Ar12 is pyridine, X22 = N remaining X(s) = CR< R(s) = H (per claim 11)
A11 is a triazine, 2-20, R22 and R24 = phenyl; A12 is pyridine, 2-15, R21-R22, R24-R25 = H (per claim 12)
R31 = phenyl (per claim 14)
X11 = tert-butyl, 9-7 (per claims 17-18)
Allowable Subject Matter
Claim 20 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.
A comprehensive search did not show the compound of claim 20.
Response to Arguments
New art presented in a 2nd Non-Final rejection.
Conclusion
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