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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 .
Election/Restrictions
Applicant's election with traverse of Group I and Species II (Fig. 2) in the reply filed on 04/17/2026 is acknowledged. The traversal is on the ground(s) that claims are amended to present new special technical features. This is not found persuasive because the restriction result are based on the most current claims at the time the restriction was made, i.e. claims submitted on 07/07/2023. Subsequent amendments would not change the restriction result. Applicant did not indicate any issues related to the restriction based on the claims submitted on 07/07/2026 in the reply.
The requirement is still deemed proper and is therefore made FINAL.
Claims 5, 17-19, 21-22 and 24 are withdrawn from further consideration pursuant to 37 CFR 1.142(b), as being drawn to a nonelected inventions, there being no allowable generic or linking claim. Applicant timely traversed the restriction (election) requirement in the reply filed on 04/17/2026. Applicant indicated in the reply that claims 1-7, 9-10, 12-15 and 23-24 readable on the elected Group I and Species II (Fig. 2). The examiner found claim 5 with the limitation “the attaching layer is an indium zinc oxide bonding layer” and claim 24 with the limitation “the attaching layer is a metal bonding layer” do not read on the elected Species II of Fig. 2 having an attaching layer of an adhesive glue layer. Thus, claims 5 and 24 are withdrawn from further consideration.
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statements (IDS) submitted on 01/05/2024, 05/15/2025 and 05/04/2026 are in compliance with the provisions of 37 CFR 1.97. Accordingly, the information disclosure statements are being considered by the examiner.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of 35 U.S.C. 112(a):
(a) IN GENERAL.—The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor or joint inventor of carrying out the invention.
The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112:
The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor of carrying out his invention.
Claims 1-4, 6-7, 9-10, 12-15 and 23 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(a) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), first paragraph, as failing to comply with the written description requirement. The claim(s) contains subject matter which was not described in the specification in such a way as to reasonably convey to one skilled in the relevant art that the inventor or a joint inventor, or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the inventor(s), at the time the application was filed, had possession of the claimed invention.
Claim 1 recites the limitation “an orthographic projection of the inorganic encapsulation layer on the first substrate is located within the first substrate, and an outer contour of the orthographic projection of the inorganic encapsulation layer on the first substrate is spaced apart from an outer contour of the first substrate; and orthographic projections of the color conversion layers and the defining dam layer on the first substrate are all located within the orthographic projection of the inorganic encapsulation layer on the first substrate” in the last 7 lines of the claim, which lacks the full support of the original disclosure. The original specification does not disclose this limitation. The figures does not show this limitation.
Claims 2-4, 6-7, 9-10, 12-15 and 23 are rejected because they depend on the rejected claim 1.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. Zhang et al. (CN 114639765 A) teach a micro-LED display panel having a plurality of micro LED display unit with a color conversion layer set on the light emitting side of the light emitting device layer.
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/HSIN YI HSIEH/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2899 6/26/2026
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