Appeal No. 2001-1516
Application No. 08/684,299
each electrode has formed thereabove in sequence a portion of an optical thin film layer
followed by a portion of a passivation layer adjacent and beneath a liquid crystal layer.
Moreover, the optical thin film layer has a predetermined optical anisotropic axis formed
from a liquid crystal polymer having liquid-crystal molecules uniaxially oriented along
the optical anisotropic path such that the optical thin film layer functions as a 1/4
wavelength phase shifter.
Independent claim 201 is reproduced as follows:
20. A liquid-crystal display device, comprising:
a first substrate for receiving incident light, said first substrate
having an inner surface on which a transparent electrode is formed;
a guest-host liquid-crystal layer beneath the transparent electrode
which contains a dichroic dye and which is uniformly oriented with respect
to said transparent electrode;
a plurality of reflective pixel electrodes beneath the liquid-crystal
layer, each pixel electrode having formed thereabove in sequence a
portion of an optical thin film layer followed by a portion of a passivation
layer adjacent and beneath the liquid crystal layer;
the optical thin film layer having a predetermined optical anisotropic
axis formed from a liquid-crystal polymer having liquid crystal molecules
uniaxially oriented along the optical anisotropic path such that the optical
thin film layer functions as a 8/4 phase shifter;
1 While the advisory action of April 19, 2000 (Paper No. 20) indicated that the amendment of
March 20, 2000 (Paper No. 19) would not be entered, apparently, the examiner agreed in a telephone
conversation with appellants’ representative (see page 4 of the principal brief) to enter the amendment for
purposes of appeal. Further, the examiner agrees (answer, page 3) that the appendix to the principal brief
is an accurate copy of the claims on appeal.
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