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 Interpretation
The term “p-type charge generation layer” has a scope as defined in paragraph [0050] of the specification. It is not the same as the hole injection layer. It is a p-type charge generation layer (p-CGL) as commonly understood in the art: the p-CGL in the pair of p-CGL/n-CGL disposed between two adjacent light-emitting units in a tandem OLED.
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 1-14 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. Claim 1 recites the compound of formula 1 wherein the metes and bounds of the moieties Re and L are arbitrary. Each of Re and L can be anything as long as they have a certain chemical group. It is unclear if they can be polymeric, heavy metal-containing or coordinate compound-containing. The scope of claim 1 is therefore unclear. Claims 11 and 13 are indefinite for the same reason, and the other claims are indefinite by dependency.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-14 would be allowable if rewritten or amended 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.
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter: The claimed device is not disclosed or suggested by the prior art of record. As the claimed device has a green light-emitting unit comprising, from the side of the first electrode, i.e., the anode, a p-CGL, a HTL and an EML, in that order, the presence of another emitting unit between the anode and the green light-emitting unit is implied. Now, whereas an OLED having the configuration of anode/HIL/HTL/EML/ETL/cathode, wherein the EML may contain a green phosphorescent dopant and a host material similar to the compound of formula 1 in claim 1, is known (see, for example, US 2021/0367178 A1 to Moon et al. and US 2020/0168810 A1 to Parham et al.), and the use of a tandem OLED having a CGL is also well known, there is not an obvious reason for a person of ordinary skill in the art to modify the prior art OLED so that it has the partial structure of anode/…/p-CGL/HTL/EML/…/cathode wherein the EML is as defined in claim 1.
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/VU A NGUYEN/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 1762
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