DETAILED ACTION
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
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) 1-5, 8-9, 11-12 and15 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Yang (CN 112480154 A).
Regarding Claims 1-5, 8-9, 15, Yang teaches a material represented by Compound 9 (page 3):
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Compound 9 reads on applicants’ wherein R1 and R2 = t-Bu; R3 = H; R4 = phenyl; R5 = H; R6 = Me; R7 and R8 = Me (per claims 1-5, 8-9, 15).
Regarding Claims 11-12, Yang teaches an electroluminescent device containing anode (ITO), a hole injection layer 2, Hole transport layer 3 , electron blocking layer 4 light emitting layer 5 (a chiral ultra-narrow emission thermally activated
delayed fluorescence compound (Compound 9) doped into a mixture of host materials), hole blocking layer 6, electron transport layer 7, electron injection layer 8, cathode layer 9 (Al) (machine trans. 71/72) (per claims 11-12).
Allowable Subject Matter I
Claims 6-7, 10 and 14 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
A comprehensive search of the prior art did not show the limitations of the above claims. The closest prior art is the cited reference Kang.
Allowable Subject Matter II
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter as applicant claims the device of claim 13.
Applicant fails to teach the compound of claim 10 which is used in the device of claim 13
Claim 13 allowed.
Conclusion
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