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`UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`ATTORNEY DOCKET NO.
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`CONF {MATION NO.
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`12/714,744
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`03/01/2010
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`Takao SATO
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`501.50424X00
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`7403
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`20457
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`7590
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`11/27/2012
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`ANTONELLLTERRY,STOUT&KRAUS,LLP
`1300 NORTH SEVENTEENTH STREET
`SUITE 1800
`ARLINGTON, VA 22209-3873
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`NGUYEN, HOAN c
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`2871
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`MAIL DATE
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`11/27/2012
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`PAPER NUMBER
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`DELIVERY MODE
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`PAPER
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`Please find below and/or attached an Office communication concerning this application or proceeding.
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`The time period for reply, if any, is set in the attached communication.
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`PTOL—90A (Rev. 04/07)
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`Office Action Summary
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`Application No.
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`Applicant(s)
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` 12/714,744 SATO ET AL.
`Examiner
`Art Unit
`HOAN c. NGUYEN
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`-- The MAILING DA TE of this communication appears on the cover sheet with the correspondence address --
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`WHICHEVER IS LONGER, FROM THE MAILING DATE OF THIS COMMUNICATION.
`Extensions of time may be available under the provisions of 37 CFR 1.136(a).
`In no event however may a reply be timely filed
`after SIX () MONTHS from the mailing date of this communication.
`If NO period for reply is specified above, the maximum statutory period will apply and will expire SIX (6) MONTHS from the mailing date of this communication.
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`- Failure to reply within the set or extended period for reply will, by statute, cause the application to become ABANDONED (35 U.S.C. § 133).
`Any reply received by the Office later than three months after the mailing date of this communication, even if timely filed, may reduce any
`earned patent term adjustment. See 37 CFR 1.704(b).
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`Status
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`1)IZI Responsive to communication(s) filed on 06 November 2012.
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`2a)IZI This action is FINAL.
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`2b)|:l This action is non-final.
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`3)I:I An election was made by the applicant in response to a restriction requirement set forth during the interview on
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`; the restriction requirement and election have been incorporated into this action.
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`4)|:l Since this application is in condition for allowance except for formal matters, prosecution as to the merits is
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`closed in accordance with the practice under Exparte Quay/e, 1935 CD. 11, 453 O.G. 213.
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`Disposition of Claims
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`5)|Zl Claim(s) 1-18is/are pending in the application.
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`5a) Of the above claim(s) 6—17is/are withdrawn from consideration.
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`6)I:l Claim(s) _ is/are allowed.
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`7)|Xl Claim(s) 1-5, 18 is/are rejected.
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`8)I:l Claim(s) _ is/are objected to.
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`9)I:I Claim(s)
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`are subject to restriction and/or election requirement.
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`* If any claims have been determined allowable, you may be eligible to benefit from the Patent Prosecution Highway
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`Application Papers
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`10)I:I The specification is objected to by the Examiner.
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`11)|:I The drawing(s) filed on _ is/are: a)I:I accepted or b)I:I objected to by the Examiner.
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`Applicant may not request that any objection to the drawing(s) be held in abeyance. See 37 CFR 1.85(a).
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`Replacement drawing sheet(s) including the correction is required if the drawing(s) is objected to. See 37 CFR 1.121 (d).
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`Priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119
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`12)I:| Acknowledgment is made of a claim for foreign priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119(a)-(d) or (f).
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`a)|:| All
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`b)|:l Some * c)I:I None of:
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`1.I:I Certified copies of the priority documents have been received.
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`2.|:l Certified copies of the priority documents have been received in Application No. _
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`3.I:I Copies of the certified copies of the priority documents have been received in this National Stage
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`application from the International Bureau (PCT Rule 17.2(a)).
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`* See the attached detailed Office action for a list of the certified copies not received.
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`Attachment(s)
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`1) I] Notice of References Cited (PTO-892)
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`2) D Information Disclosure Statement(s) (PTO/SB/08)
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`US. Patent and Trademark Office
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`3) I] Interview Summary (PTO-413)
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`4) D Other:
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`PTOL-326 (Rev. 09-12)
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`Office Action Summary
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`Part of Paper No./Mai| Date 20121108
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`Application/Control Number: 12/714,744
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`DETAILED ACTION
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`Response to Amendment
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`Applicant's arguments with respect to claims 1 and 18 based on the Response
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`filed on 11/06/2012 have been considered but are moot in view of the new ground(s) of
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`rejection. Therefore, this is Final action.
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`Claims 6-17 are withdrawn. Claims 1-5 and 18 are elected.
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`Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 1 12
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`The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
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`(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.
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`The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA), second paragraph:
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`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.
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`Claims 1-5 and 18 rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA),
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`second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly
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`claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor, or for pre-AIA the
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`applicant regards as the invention.
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`Claim 1 cites “a plurality of rectangular second organic insulating films disposed
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`so as to avoid forming regions of the metal films and serving as bases of the column
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`spacers in a mixed manner along sides of the panel substrate region regions in a non-
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`panel region at the periphery of each of the panel substrate regions”
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`What does “a plurality of rectangular second organic insulating films disposed so
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`as to avoid forming regions of the metal films” mean?
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`Claims 1 or 8 cites “a side positioned on a start side of the rubbing, among sides
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`of each of the first organic insulating films PASZ, is defined as a first side, and each of
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`sides substantially parallel to the rubbing direction, among sides of the second organic
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`insulating film OPS disposed adjacent to the first side, is defined as a second side, a
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`portion of the first side that crosses the second side when the second side extends in
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`the rubbing direction is formed so as to have a predetermined angle other than 0°and
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`90°with respect to a direction perpendicular to the rubbing direction”.
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`What are “among sides of each of the first organic insulating films PA82”? What
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`are “sides”?
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`What is “each of sides substantially parallel to the rubbing direction”? What are
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`“sides”?
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`What is “among sides of the second organic insulating film OPS disposed
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`adjacent to the first side”? What are “sides”?
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`Claims 2—5 are rejected sine they depend on the indefinite claim 1.
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`Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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`The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form
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`the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
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`A person shall be entitled to a patent unless —
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`(b) the invention was patented or described in a printed publication in this or a foreign country or in
`public use or on sale in this country, more than one year prior to the date of application for patent in
`the United States.
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`Claim 18 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(b) as being anticipated by Noritake et al.
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`Noritake et al. disclose a liquid crystal display device produced by rubbing (as shown in
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`Fig. 1) a resin film formed on an upper surface of a stacked body (20a or 20b) as shown
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`in Fig. 3) in each of a plurality of panel regions 104 (as shown in Fig. 2) arranged in
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`substantially perpendicular directions of a first substrate in a direction substantially
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`parallel to or in a direction substantially perpendicular to the arrangement directions of
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`the plurality of panel regions, and forming, in the case where a side positioned on a
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`rubbing start side (as shown in Fig. 1), among sides of each of first organic insulating
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`films (layer insulation film 32), is defined as a first side, and each of sides parallel to a
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`rubbing direction, among sides of a second organic insulating film (enclosure 11 is
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`preferably made of the same material and in the same process as the black matrix 21,
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`which is made of a poly/mide resin) disposed adjacent to the first side, is defined as a
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`second side, a portion of the first side that crosses the second side when the second
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`side is extends in the rubbing direction so as to have a predetermined angle other than
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`0° and 90°with respect to a direction perpendicular to the rubbing direction (as shown in
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`Fig. 1), as viewed in a plane.
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`Conclusion
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`Applicant's amendment necessitated the new ground(s) of rejection presented in
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`this Office action. Accordingly, THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL. See MPEP
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`§ 706.07(a). Applicant is reminded of the extension of time policy as set forth in 37
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`CFR1.136(a).
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`A shortened statutory period for reply to this final action is set to expire THREE
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`MONTHS from the mailing date of this action.
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`In the event a first reply is filed within
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`TWO MONTHS of the mailing date of this final action and the advisory action is not
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`mailed until after the end of the THREE-MONTH shortened statutory period, then the
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`shortened statutory period will expire on the date the advisory action is mailed, and any
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`Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2871
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