Ex parte PORTOGHESE - Page 1




                        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                                for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 20                          

                                UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                      
                                                        __________                                                             
                                     BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                        
                                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                                            
                                                        __________                                                             
                                            Ex parte PHILIP S. PORTOGHESE                                                      
                                                        __________                                                             
                                                   Appeal No. 1997-2204                                                        
                                                Application No. 08/440,989                                                     
                                                        __________                                                             
                                                         ON BRIEF                                                              
                                                        __________                                                             
              Before WINTERS and WILLIAM F. SMITH, Administrative Patent Judges, and McKELVEY,                                 
              Senior Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                              
              WINTERS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                            

                                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                                           
                      This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner’s final                         
              rejection of claim 21, the only claim pending in the application.                                                
                      Claim 21 reads as follows:                                                                               
                             21.     A method for blocking L-opioid receptors in mammalian tissue                              
                                     comprising contacting said receptors with an amount of a compound                         
                                     of the formula:                                                                           









Page:  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  Next 

Last modified: November 3, 2007