Appeal No. 94-2842
Application 07/882,351
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THE REJECTION
Claims 8-31 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Merck, Andersen, Lampman I, Lampman II,
Ishikawa, Rhodes, Metcalf ‘922, Hennart, Metcalf and Lance.3,4
OPINION
We have carefully considered all of the arguments advanced
by appellants and the examiner and agree with the examiner that
the invention recited in claims 8-19 and 23-31 would have been
3The examiner also rejected claims 8-19 over the same
references using essentially the same language when explaining
the rejection. Hence, we need not further address this
rejection.
4The rejections under 35 U.S.C. §§ 101 and 112, first
paragraph, in the final rejection (paper no. 27 mailed on June 2,
1993) were withdrawn in the examiner’s answer (pages 3-4).
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