Appeal No. 95-0523
Application No. 07/885,490
not have had a reasonable expectation that the same result
would follow from inclusion of enzymes in formula which
contains proteins and polysaccharides, where the enzyme is
active in the digestive system. The contact time between
enzyme and substrate, as well as the reaction conditions, are
controllable in the production settings discussed by the prior
art. The examiner's position does not explain why one of
ordinary skill in the art would have had a reasonable
expectation that the reaction parameters would be met by an
infant's digestive system. Neither the statement of rejection
nor the rebuttal explain the basis for any such reasonable
expectation of success and the prior art does not teach a
process wherein the protein and polysaccharide substrates are
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