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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 .
Information Disclosure Statement
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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 1 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Jang et al., US 2020/0303605 in view of Kubota et al., WO 2015/019532.
Regarding claim 1, Jang teaches a displaying apparatus ([0003]), comprising: a panel substrate ([0003]); and a plurality of pixel modules disposed on the panel substrate, each of the pixel modules comprising: a circuit board (11p); a plurality of unit pixels arranged on the circuit board see Figure 10e); and a molding member (90) covering the plurality of unit pixels, wherein the molding member includes a light diffusion layer (90) such that the molding member is disposed between and on or above the plurality of unit pixels (see Figure 10e and [0119-0124]), and a first thickness of the light diffusion layer disposed between the plurality of unit pixels is different from a second thickness of the light diffusion layer disposed on or above the plurality of unit pixels (see Figure 10e). Jang is silent as to a black molding member.
However, in the same field of endeavor of display devices, Kubota teaches a black molding layer covering the light diffusion layer (Figure 14C, black molding member 68a formed on surface of diffusing layer 63). Further, it would have been well known to those of ordinary skill in the art that a black matrix would serve to improve display quality by ensuring even illumination. Therefore, it would have been obvious for one of ordinary skill in the art at the time of filing to provide a black molding layer on the diffusion layer of the Jang device in order to improve the display quality.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. Lee et al., US 2020/0083397 teaches a display device comprising a black molding layer surrounding a plurality of inorganic LEDs, but fails to teach a thickness of a first light diffusion layer is different from a second thickness of a light diffusion layer on or above the pixels.
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MARY ELLEN BOWMAN
Examiner
Art Unit 2875
/MARY ELLEN BOWMAN/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2875
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