Patent ID: 7527989

Claim:
A method for fabricating a liquid crystal display panel, comprising the steps of: forming a thin film transistor array substrate including: a screen region having gate lines, data lines, thin film transistors, and pixel electrodes, a pad region having gate pads, an overetch prevention pattern formed overlapped with a gate insulating film in an outer portion of each gate pad, and data pads, data pad protection electrodes each on a respective data pad, and a protection film on an entire surface of the screen region and the pad region; forming a color filter array substrate; making a cell by bonding the thin film transistor array substrate and the color filter array substrate so that the pad region remains uncovered; etching the protection film of the cell and the overetch prevention pattern of the uncovered pad region of the cell to expose the gate pads and the data pad protection electrodes, and to form gate holes in the gate insulating film over corresponding gate pads; and wherein the data pad protection electrodes are each formed having a width greater than a width of each of the data pads.