Appeal 2006-2611
Application 10/356,118
have not pointed to any particular disclosure in Miyashita that blue
luminescent layer 108, which has the same composition throughout, is
subjected to different control parameters that prevents it from being emissive
over anodes 101 and 102. Appellants have not factually supported the
assertion that the uniform, luminescent layer 108 of Miyashita, which is
interposed between the same cathode and anode, somehow is emissive over
anode 103 but is not emissive over anodes 101 and 102. In addition, claim
37 does not define the term "emissive" in such a way that distinguishes it
over the emissions emitting from luminescent layer 108 over anodes 101 and
102. Like Appellants, Miyashita employs layers 106 and 107 to generate
green and red light, and also expressly teach that the thicknesses of the
luminescent layers can be controlled to effect color balance and brightness
(page 3, para. 0051). Also, while Appellants emphasize the reference
disclosure that "the blue luminescent layer 108 can be formed of an electron
injection and transfer material" (page 3, para. 0055), it logically follows that
the reference teaches that luminescent layer 108 need not be formed of an
electron injection and transfer material.
We note that Appellants do not contest the Examiner's reliance on
Wolk for establishing the obviousness of applying the red and green
emissive layers of Miyashita by a donor element.
We also agree with the Examiner that the broadly claimed "forming a
color filter array or color change module array" is met by the structure of
Miyashita as a whole.
We now turn to the Section 103 rejection over Yoneda in view of
Wolk. Yoneda, like Appellants, discloses a method of forming an organic
light-emitting device by forming a common luminescent emissive layer 14
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