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`15/052,224
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`02/24/2016
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`Takahiro NAGAMI
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`1497—503 02CX2
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`5891
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`TYPHA IP LLC
`1819 L Street NW Suite 200
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`Washington, DC 20036
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`NGUYEN, HOAN C
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`ART UNIT
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`2871
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`MAIL DATE
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`10/20/2017
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`PAPER NUIVIBER
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`Applicant(s)
`Application No.
` 15/052,224 NAGAMI, TAKAHIRO
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`AIA (First Inventor to File)
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`Office Action Summary
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`HOAN c. NGUYEN its“ 2871
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`1)IZI Responsive to communication(s) filed on 10/05/2017.
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`2b)|:l This action is non-final.
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`Disposition of Claims*
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`5)IZI Claim(s) 1-3 and 5-17is/are pending in the application.
`5a) Of the above claim(s) 8-17is/are withdrawn from consideration.
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`is/are allowed.
`6)I:I Claim(s)
`7)|Z| Claim(s) 1 -3 and5- 7is/are rejected.
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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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`DETAILED ACTION
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`The present application is being examined under the pre-AIA first to invent provisions.
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`Response to Amendment
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`Applicant's arguments with respect to the amended claims 1 and 5 based on the
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`Response filed on 10/05/2017 have been considered but are moot in view of the new
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`ground(s) of rejection. Therefore, this is Final action.
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`This instant application is continuation of 12/637856 filed on 12/15/2009 having the
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`foreign priority in Japan filed on 12/15/2008.
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`Claim 4 is cancelled.
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`Claims 8-17 are withdrawn.
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`Claims 1-3 and 5-7 elected.
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`Claim 1
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`is amended with the features “the organic tiirh having a first part and a sesend
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`gert end a third part. whereiri the first part is separated item the secend part in the first
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`directien and is sieser he an end at the first substrate then the seeene art. wherein the
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`third part is between the first part and the seeend part. anti is separated trem the first
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`gert end the sesshd gert, wherein the first gert end the third gert have a secehd width in
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`the first direetien which is smeiier than the first width and are extentiiri
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`the seat
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`rneteriei. wherein the seei meteriei is : revided between the first art and the third tart.
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`egg wherein the inerganic film covers the first m the second part: and the third part”,
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`which can be rejected by Yamazaki et at: (US 200302225?5) with the different
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`interpretation:
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`Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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`The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of pre-AIA 35 U.S.C.
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`102 that form 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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`1.
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`Claims 1 and 7 are rejected under pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102(b) as being anticipated
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`by Yamazaki et al. (US 20030222575).
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`Yamazaki et al. disclose a display device comprising: a diseiay device having a disgia‘g
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`area and a eerigherai area areund the disgiag area. comprising:
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`a tirst substrate
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`an erganie 'iiirn [numeral 5 designates an inter/ayer insulating film comprising an
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`organic insulating material [0077]] ever the first substrate,
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`an inerganic tiirh [numeral 6 designates an inter/ayer insulating material
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`comprising an inorganic insulating film material [0077]] en the erganie iiirn,
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`a secend substrate i8 ebhesed te the first substrate, and
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`a seat materiai [seal member 19a] erevided between the first substrate and the
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`seeend substrate and surreunding the disgiag area:
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`wherein
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`the seat materiai is extendin aien an end at the first substrate and has a first
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`width in a first direetien eressin an extendinc directien.
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`the erganie tiirn having a first part and a seeend eart and a third part as
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`interpretatien in Fig,
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`1 above, wherein
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`the first part is; Streamed from the second
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`eieser te an end at the first substrate than the seeend eart.
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`the third Qart is between the first gert and the seeehd eert, and is
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`se areted item the first art and the seeend art the first art and the
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`third art have a seeend width in the first direeiien which is srnaiier than
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`the first width and are extending siting the seat materiait
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`the seat rhateriai is gravided between the first gert and the third eert, and
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`as
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`the inorganic film covers the first part, the second part. and the third part.
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`Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
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`The following is a quotation of pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 103(a) which forms the basis
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`for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
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`(a) A patent may not be obtained though the invention is not identically disclosed or described
`as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the subject matter sought to be patented
`and the prior art are such that the subject matter as a whole would have been obvious at the
`time the invention was made to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which said subject
`matter pertains. Patentability shall not be negatived by the manner in which the invention was
`made.
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`1.
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`Claims 2-3 and 5-6 are rejected under pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 103(a) as being
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`unpatentable over Yamazaki et al. (US 20030222575) as applied to claim 1
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`in view of
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`Yoshida et al. (US 20090066903).
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`Yamazaki et al. also disclose the black matrix made of organic film [0090] and the first
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`electrode 4 and the second electrode 7 or 10 are between the organic film and the
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`second substrate (claim 3).
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`However, Yamazaki et al. fail to disclose the features of claims 2 and 5-6,
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`Yoshida et al. teach
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`Claim 2:
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`first spacers between the first substrate 11 and the second substrate 12, wherein
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`the first part facing the first spacers, wherein a part of the first part are
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`overlapped with the seal material, wherein the first spacers are in contact with
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`the seal material.
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`Claim 5:
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`second spacers are between the first substrate and the second substrate,
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`wherein the third part is facing the second spacers.
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`Claim 6:
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`a part of the first part and a part of the third part are overlapped with the seal
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`material, wherein the first spacers and the second spacers are in contact with the
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`seal material.
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`Therefore, it would have been obvious to one having ordinary skill in the art at the time
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`the invention was made to further modify a liquid crystal display device as Yamazaki et
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`al. disclosed with the features of claims 2, 5-6 for easily and accurately provided in a
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`predetermined region of the seal member [0026] as Yoshida et al. taught.
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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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