Appeal No. 98-1012
Serial No. 08/117,342
We direct our attention to the new grounds of rejection
made in the second supplemental examiner=s answer (paper no.
48.5, mailed January 22, 1997). The references relied on are:
Edberg (Edberg) 4,925,789 May 15, 1990
Matner et al (Matner) 5,073,488 Dec. 17, 1991
Manafi, Kniefel and Bascomb (Manafi); Fluorogenic and
Chromogenic Substrates Used in Bacterial Diagnostics,
Microbiological Reviews, Vol. 55, No. 3, September 1991, pp.
335-348
The claims under appeal stand rejected as follows:
Claim 5 is rejected under the enablement requirement of 35
U.S.C. ' 112, first paragraph.
Claims 2-4, 6-8, 14-15, 23, 25, and 26 are rejected under 35
U.S.C. ' 103 over Manafi in view of Edberg.
Claims 9-13 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. ' 103 over Manafi in
view of Edberg and further in view of Matner.
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