Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
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
In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
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) 1-16 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being clearly anticipated by Myong-Gon et al (CN 113924307).
Myong-Gon discloses polycyclic compounds of Chemical Formula
1 (see paragraphs 88-97 of the specification):
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R1 to R8 are the same or different from each other and are each independently hydrogen; deuterium; cyano; a halogen group; substituted or unsubstituted alkyl; substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy; substituted or unsubstituted alkylthio; substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkyl; substituted or unsubstituted silyl; substituted or unsubstituted aryl; substituted or unsubstituted aryloxy; substituted or unsubstituted arylthio; substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclyl; or a substituted or unsubstituted amine group, or is bonded to an adjacent substituent to form a substituted or unsubstituted ring,
R1 to R6 is bonded to the adjacent substituent to form a substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic hydrocarbon ring,
When r1 to r4 and r6 are each 2 or more, or r5 is 2, the substituents in parentheses are the same or different from each other.
Myong-Gon further discloses (see paragraphs 164-170 of the specification):
In one embodiment of the specification the substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic hydrocarbon ring formed by bonding one or more of R1 to R6 to the adjacent substituent is of the following chemical formula Cy1.
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Myong-Gon also discloses the manufacture of organic light emitting devices (see paragraphs 1450-1457 of the specification), wherein it is specifically disclosed that "a light-emitting layer is formed on the electron blocking layer by vacuum deposition of
the following BH1 as host and a thickness of 2 parts by weight of a compound M10 to 200 of the present disclosure as blue light-emitting dopant relative to 100 parts by weight of the light-emitting layer" (see paragraph 1454 of the specification, examples 1-10), wherein the compound BH1 structure is as follows (see paragraph 1457 of the
specification).
Myong-Gon also discloses that the organic-material layer may have a multilayer structure including a hole-injection layer, a hole-transport layer, a light-emitting layer, an
electron-transport layer, and the like, but is not limited thereto, and may have a single-layer structure. Further, using various polymeric materials, the organic material layer can be prepared into a smaller number of layers using solvent methods (e.g., spin coating, dip coating, knife coating, screen printing, ink jet printing, thermal transfer methods, etc.) rather than deposition methods (see paragraph 718 of the specification).
Conclusion
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JAMES D. SELLS
Primary Examiner
Art Unit 1745
/JAMES D SELLS/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 1745