Appeal 2007-0410
Application 10/414,066
pending in this application, are objected to as dependent claims including
allowable subjected matter. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 35 U.S.C. §§ 6
and 134.
The claimed invention is directed to an electroluminescent (EL)
composition and an organic electronic device (OED) including such a
composition. The (EL) composition includes a first compound of a Formula
1, as recited in claim 1, which compound has the characteristic(s) of a charge
transporting, charge blocking, light emitting, and/or color conversion
material. The elected species of the claimed composition under
consideration by the Examiner in the rejection before us is described in the
Supplemental Examiner’s Answer (p. 3).1 The elected species of
Appellants’ composition includes a second compound that is a polymeric
material that has an aromatic radical, which radical is an aromatic core of the
first compound. The second compound has at least one characteristic from
those enumerated above for the first compound, and the composition is
amorphous and solution processible. Appealed claim 1 is reproduced in the
Claims Appendix attached to Appellants’ Brief.
The Examiner relies on the following prior art references as evidence
in rejecting the appealed claims:
Mori US 5,281,489 Jan. 25, 1994
Burroughes GB 2 348 316 A Sep. 27, 2000
Hosokawa JP 2001-097949 A Apr. 10, 2001
1 The rejection of record before us for consideration on appeal is
specifically directed to Appellants’ elected species as set forth in the
Answer.
2
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