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 .
DETAILED ACTION
Election/Restrictions
1. The restriction requirement between inventions, as set forth in the Office action mailed on 05/15/2026, has been reconsidered in view of the applicant’s remarks. The restriction requirement is hereby withdrawn.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
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.
2. Claim 12 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a1) as being anticipated by Wang et al. (CN 107833878; hereinafter Wang, see IDS dated 02/12/2024).
Regarding claim 12, Wang, in fig. 6, discloses a red-green-blue (RGB) InGaN-based micro light-emitting diode (micro-LED) device, comprising: a plurality of RGB InGaN LED (4/5/6) components distributed in accordance with a specified layout design, wherein three color light components in the RGB InGaN LED components are formed on a same epitaxial wafer 1; the epitaxial wafer 1 is formed with an isolation layer 3 of an epitaxial zone, and the isolation layer 3 of the epitaxial zone is formed with block trench zones L1 of the three color light components, and intermediate layers 25 are grown on bottoms of the block trench zones L1 for three color light components to modulate an epitaxial lattice constant, and then an epitaxial layer of InGaN-based material (4/5/6) corresponding to the three color light components are formed in the block trench zones L1.
Allowable Subject Matter
3. Claims 14-17 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.
4. Claims 1-10 are allowed.
The following is an examiner's statement of reason for allowance: the prior art of record, either singularly or in combination, does not disclose or suggest at least the claim limitations of " S4, selecting by zone and growing corresponding intermediate layers on bottoms of the block trench zones for at least one of the two or three color light components to modulate an epitaxial lattice constant; each of the intermediate layers comprises a bottom layer and a top layer; the bottom layer is composed of a single type of two-dimensional (2D) material or is a composite layer of multiple types of 2D materials, and the top layer is coated onto the bottom layer and consists of a nitride containing Al, Ga, or In elements; S5, carrying out an LED epitaxy process in the block trench zone” (claim 1) as instantly claimed and in combination with the additionally claimed method steps.
Conclusion
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/DAVID VU/
Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2818
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