DETAILED ACTION
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 .
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 (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) 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.
Claim Objections
Claim 22 is objected to because of the following informalities: In the last two lines of the first page of the claim “shown below” appears to be a typo and has been interpreted as “shown above.” Appropriate correction is required.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claim 32 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor (or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention.
Claim 32 recites the limitation "Z2" in the definition of Z6. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim. For purposes of further examination, “Z2” is being interpreted as “Z6”.
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) 22-26, 34-35, and 37-41 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Takahashi et al. (US Pub. No. 2019/0341556).
Regarding Claims 22-26 and 34-35: Takahashi et al. teaches a compound of the following structure:
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reading on a compound of Formula (I) wherein A is (A1), Xa-c is carbon, and Cc is a straight chain-alkyl substituted aliphatic ring system of nine carbon atoms (Pg. 63).
Regarding Claims 37-38: Takahashi et al. teaches the compound as a fluorescent emitter in an emitting layer which would further comprise a host material (further compound) ([0413] and [0535]).
Regarding Claim 39: Takahashi et al. teaches the emitting layer may comprise a phosphorescent emitter ([0411]-[0412]).
Regarding Claim 40: Takahashi et al. teaches a method of making the compound comprising synthesizing an aromatic amino group in which an aromatic radical is introduced (Pgs. 369-370).
Regarding Claim 41: Takahashi et al. teaches the compound in an electronic device ([0009] and [0481]-[0482]).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 27-31, 33, and 36 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.
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/PETER F GODENSCHWAGER/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 1767 August 27, 2026
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