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publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 65
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte IRVING BOIME, MARTIN M. MATZUK,
and JEFFREY L. KEENE
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Appeal No. 1997-2517
Application No. 08/155,102
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ON BRIEF
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Before WINTERS, ROBINSON, and GRIMES, Administrative Patent Judges.
GRIMES, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner’s
final rejection of claims 14, 15, 47-50, and 52, all of the claims remaining in the
application. Claim 14 is representative and reads as follows:
14. A DNA molecule comprising a recombinant expression system
capable, when transformed into a recombinant host cell, of
expressing a gene encoding a mutein of the human gonadotropin
alpha subunit which mutein, when combined with a beta
gonadotropin subunit results in a modified gonadotropin hormone
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