DETAILED ACTION
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 .
This Office Action is in response to the election filed November 7, 2025.
Election/Restrictions
Applicant’s election without traverse of claim 1-14 in the reply filed on November 7, 2025 is acknowledged.
Priority
Receipt is acknowledged of certified copies of papers required by 37 CFR 1.55.
Specification
The title of the invention is not descriptive. A new title is required that is clearly indicative of the invention to which the claims are directed.
The following title is suggested: DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING BANK LAYER TIPS.
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.
Claim 1 is 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.
It is not understood how there is a first and second common electrodes when a common electrode is actually a single continuous electrode among a plurality of light-emitting elements.
Claims 2-14 are rejected as being dependent upon rejected claim 1.
Allowable Subject Matter
As best understood, 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.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
The following patents are cited to further show the state of the art with respect to display devices:
Chen et al. (US 11,527732 B1) Choung et al. (US 2022/0077251 A1)
Ghosh et al. (6,060,728) Ikeda et al. (US 2012/0205634 A1)
Jones et al. (6,069443) Lee (US 2021/0020714 A1)
Lin et al. (US 11,610,954 B1) Nagayama et al. (5,952,037)
Song et al. (US 2021/0335943 A1) Takata (US 2009/0009069 A1)
Tanaka et al. (JP 2008135325 A) Uchida (JP 2005268024 A)
Yang et al. (US 2021/0167146 A1).
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IMS
December 2, 2025
/IDA M SOWARD/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2898