Ex Parte GOULD et al - 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                                  for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 17                    

                        UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                     
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                              BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                      
                                            AND INTERFERENCES                                                         
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                                           Ex parte SANDRA L. GOULD,                                                  
                                              DANIEL J. DISTEFANO,                                                    
                                             DAVID K. ROBINSON, and                                                   
                                               T. CRAIG SEAMANS                                                       
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                                               Appeal No. 2002-2284                                                   
                                             Application No. 09/176,492                                               
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                                                     ON BRIEF                                                         
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                 Before ADAMS, MILLS, and GRIMES, Administrative Patent Judges.                                       
                 ADAMS, 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 claims 1 and 3, which are all the claims pending in                    
                 the application.                                                                                     
                        Claims 1 and 3 are reproduced below:                                                          
                        1. A Serum-free media for the production of rotavirus selected from the                       
                           group consisting of LPKM-1, LPKM-2 and LPKM-3[1].                                          
                        3. A method of producing a vaccine against rotavirus comprising,                              
                               a) growing Vero cells in a media of Claim 1;                                           
                                                                                                                      
                 1 The ingredients of each of LPKM-1, LPKM-2 and LPKM-3 are set forth in Table 1 of the               
                 specification.                                                                                       





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