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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 .
Priority
Receipt is acknowledged of papers submitted under 35 U.S.C. 119(a)-(d), which papers have been placed of record in the file.
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statement (IDS) submitted on 11/14/2023 has been considered by the examiner.
Election/Restrictions
Claims 13-20 are withdrawn from further consideration pursuant to 37 CFR 1.142(b) as being drawn to a nonelected method / species, there being no allowable generic or linking claim. Election was made without traverse in the reply filed on 05/15/2026.
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.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made.
Claim(s) 1 and 7-12 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Yeong, (KR10-2021-008487, machine translation, 07-2021, foreign translation-ids) in view of Lee,( KR 20150042989 A, machine translation, 04-2015).
Regarding claim 1, An organic light-emitting display device, comprising: a first anode electrode (4) (41) disposed in a first sub-pixel (21); a second anode electrode (42)) disposed in a second sub-pixel (22); a third anode electrode(43) disposed in a third sub-pixel (23); a first organic light-emitting layer(61), a first cathode electrode (7), a first portion of a second organic light-emitting layer (62), and a first portion of a second cathode electrode (7) sequentially stacked on the first anode electrode(41) and the second anode electrode (42); and a second portion of the second organic light-emitting layer (62)and a second portion of the second cathode electrode (7)sequentially stacked on the third anode electrode, Yeong fails to explicitly to disclose at least one ground electrode disposed in the third sub-pixel and spaced apart from the third anode electrode; wherein at least a portion of a side edge of the second portion of the second cathode electrode contacts the at least one ground electrode.
Lee in (Figure 3) discloses The secondary ground electrode (113) is separated to the anode electrode (111) and drain electrode (D) and the conventional cathode electrode (151)(Second electrode) improves the structure where the center brightness is reduced with the surface resistance it is formed in upper part of the insulating layer (115); wherein at least a portion of a side edge of the second portion of the second cathode electrode (151) contacts the at least one ground electrode (113).
It would be obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date to modify . The organic light-emitting display device of Yeong as disclosed by Lee wherein at least one ground electrode disposed in the third sub-pixel and spaced apart from the third anode electrode; wherein at least a portion of a side edge of the second portion of the second cathode electrode contacts the at least one ground electrode the motivation being the reduction of surface resistance thus increasing brightness.
Regarding claims 7-10, the limitations wherein the at least one ground electrode includes a pair of ground electrodes spaced apart from each other and disposed in the third sub-pixel, wherein two opposing edges of the second portion of the second cathode electrode are in contact with the pair of ground electrodes, respectively (claim 7), wherein the at least one ground electrode is formed in a rectangular ring shape and is disposed in the third sub-pixel, wherein four side edges of the second portion of the second cathode electrode are in contact with the at least one ground electrode (claim 8); wherein the at least one ground electrode includes: a first extension extending in a first direction; and a pair of second extensions extending from the first extension in a second direction transverse the first direction, wherein the pair of second extensions are spaced apart from each other and are disposed in the third sub-pixel, wherein three side edges of the second portion of the second cathode electrode contact the at least one ground electrode Claim 9); wherein the first organic light-emitting layer includes a yellow light-emitting layer and a green light-emitting layer, and the second organic light-emitting layer includes a blue light-emitting layer(Claim 10) do not appear to contain any additional features which define more than slight constructional changes which come within the scope of the customary (design) practice followed by persons skilled in the art, especially as the advantages thus achieved can be readily contemplated in advance. Alternatively, these limitations are not deemed patentable since the applicant’s disclosure fails to show such limitations to solve any problems or to yield any unobvious advantage that is not within the scope of the teachings applied. Therefore, such limitations would be a matter of design alternative.
It would be obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date to modify the display of Yeong utilizing the disclosure of Yeong and Lee, wherein the at least one ground electrode includes a pair of ground electrodes spaced apart from each other and disposed in the third sub-pixel, wherein two opposing edges of the second portion of the second cathode electrode are in contact with the pair of ground electrodes, respectively; wherein the at least one ground electrode is formed in a rectangular ring shape and is disposed in the third sub-pixel, wherein four side edges of the second portion of the second cathode electrode are in contact with the at least one ground electrode (; wherein the at least one ground electrode includes: a first extension extending in a first direction; and a pair of second extensions extending from the first extension in a second direction transverse the first direction, wherein the pair of second extensions are spaced apart from each other and are disposed in the third sub-pixel, wherein three side edges of the second portion of the second cathode electrode contact the at least one ground electrode ; wherein the first organic light-emitting layer includes a yellow light-emitting layer and a green light-emitting layer, and the second organic light-emitting layer includes a blue light-emitting layer the motivation being to provide can prevent that the cathode electrode is circuit-shorted while this application prevents the generation of the side leakage current through the organic light-emitting layer.
Regarding claim 11 Yeong discloses wherein the first organic light-emitting layer(61) includes a red light-emitting layer , and a green light-emitting layer, and the second organic light-emitting layer(62) includes a blue light-emitting layer (page 7, 7th paragraph, page 14, 7th paragraph).
Regarding claim 12 Yeong discloses a red color filter (91)disposed in the first sub-pixel (21); and a green color filter(92) disposed in the second sub-pixel(22) (Page 15, 3rd-6th paragraphs).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2 and 3 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. Claims 4-6 are objected to due to their dependency upon claims 2 and 3.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure can be found in the 892 and below
US 20180083087 A1- General state of the Art -An OLED display device includes a display area of a substrate to display images; a non-display area surrounding the display area and applying signals to pixels
US 20160284776 A1-General state of the art- light-emitting display devices, organic light-emitting display devices, which may be self-luminous display devices, may exhibit wide viewing angle, high contrast, and fast response speed.
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