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               The opinion in support of the decision being entered                   
               today was not written for publication and is not                       
               binding precedent of the Board.                                        
                                                               Paper No. 42           


                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                    
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                      Ex parte ATSUNORI MORI, YOSHITAKA IKEDA,                        
                          KOICHI KINOSHITA and SHOHEI INOUE                           
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                                Appeal No. 1997-3586                                  
                             Application No. 08/240,811                               
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before KIMLIN, JOHN D. SMITH and WALTZ, Administrative Patent               
          Judges.                                                                     
          KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.                                        



                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 9-                
          13, all the claims remaining in the present application.                    
          Claim 9 is illustrative:                                                    
          9.   A method for producing (S)-cyanohydrins by allowing                    
          hydrogen cyanide to react with aldehydes in the presence of a               
          catalytic amount of cyclo-[(S)-leucyl-(S)-histidyl].                        
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