DETAILED CORRESPONDENCE
This Office action is in response to the RCE received January 22, 2026.
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, 2, 4-9, are 11-18 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 is indefinite with respect to R1 which claims 2 or 3 substituents which are meta-substituted and para-substituted around the carbon(*) wherein R1 is shown to be connected to the benzene ring by a single bond according to [Formula 1], so it indefinite with respect to having 2 or 3 substituents which are meta-substituted and para-substituted around the carbon(*).
Correction to clarify the scope of the protection sought is necessary.
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 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a) (1) as being anticipated by LEE et al (2010/0190994).
The claimed invention recites the following:
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LEE et al disclose an intermediate compound which anticipates the claimed structure of [Formula 1] on page 17 para. [0029] shown below:
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The reaction of an anthracene-9,10-dione with a dibromo benzene results in an intermediate structure above defined in Reaction Scheme 2 of page 17.
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
BERENS et al (8,101,776) is cited of interest as disclosing a compound used for preparing an electronic device
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/John S. Chu/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 1737
J. Chu
February 11, 2026
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