DETAILED ACTION
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 23 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Lee et al. (Lee, US 2006/0017710 A1).
Regarding claim 23, Lee shows a display device (LCD 300 in FIG. 6 and [0044]), comprising: a lower substrate (substrate 210 in FIG. 6 and [01341]); an upper substrate (substrate 110 in FIG. 6 and [0089]) on the lower substrate (substrate 210) (TFT panel 100 in FIG. 6); a thin film transistor disposed on the upper substrate (substrate 110), the thin film transistor having a gate electrode ([0093-0098]) including a first sub-conductive layer (conductive layer 190 and 196 ) and a second sub-conductive layer (conductive layer 270 [0138]) disposed on the first sub-conductive layer (conductive layer 19 and 196); and a pad electrode (electrode pad 124) disposed on the upper substrate (substrate 110), wherein the first sub-conductive layer (conductive layer 190 and 196) includes a first low-reflective material (conductive layer 192/194/197/198), and wherein the second sub-conductive layer includes a second low-reflective material or a third low-reflective material (conductive layer 192/194/197/198).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-22 are allowed.
Claims 24-26 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.
Conclusion
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/ELIAS ULLAH/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2893