Patent ID: 7379126

Claim:
A method of fabricating a liquid crystal display device, the method comprising the steps of: providing a liquid crystal display panel, the liquid crystal display panel including a displaying unit and a dummy region, the display unit including, a plurality of pixel areas defined by a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines, a thin film transistor formed in each of the pixel areas and to be connected to a pixel electrode formed in that pixel area, and a plurality of gate pads and data pads formed on ends of the corresponding gate line and data line; and the dummy region disposed in an outer portion of the displaying unit, and including a gate shorting bar and a data shorting bar which are connected to the gate pads and the data pads respectively, the data shorting bar being a single bar connected to the data pads and the gate shorting bar including a first gate shorting bar connected to only odd gate pads and a second gate shorting bar connected to only even gate pads, applying a test signal to at least on of the gate shorting bar and the data shorting bar to test the thin film transistor; and processing the liquid crystal display panel.