Ex Parte Chen - Page 2


                  Appeal No.  2006-3290                                                              Page 2                    
                  Application No.  10/072,823                                                                                  
                          The references relied upon by Examiner are:                                                          
                  Fujita et al. (‘016)   UK 1 476 016  Jun. 10, 1977                                                           
                  Fujita et al. (‘434)   JP S52-102434  Aug. 27, 1977                                                          
                  Matsui     JP Sho 52-145509  Dec. 3, 1977                                                                    
                  Son et al. (Son)   JP Sho 57-167938  Oct. 16, 1982                                                           
                  Ito et al. (Ito)    JP H11-236334  Aug. 31, 1999                                                             


                                                GROUND OF REJECTION                                                            
                          Claims 1-9, 11-16, 18-23, 29-29 and 32-35 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.                             
                  § 103 as being unpatentable over the combination of any one of Son, ‘016 or                                  
                  ‘434 with either Ito or Matsui.                                                                              
                          We affirm.                                                                                           


                                                    CLAIM GROUPING                                                             
                          Appellant does not separately group or argue the claims.  Accordingly, the                           
                  claims will stand or fall together.  Therefore, we limit our discussion to                                   
                  representative independent claim 1.  Claims 2-9, 11-16, 18-23, 26-29 and 32-35                               
                  will stand or fall together with claim 1.  37 C.F.R. § 41.37(c)(1)(vii) (July 2005).                         


                                                       DISCUSSION                                                              
                  Claim Construction:                                                                                          
                          Claim 1 is drawn to a composition that comprises two components:                                     
                      (1) oridonin, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester of oridonin, a                                 
                          selectively substituted analog of oridonin, or a combination thereof; and                            
                      (2) lupulone, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester of lupulone, a                                 
                          selectively substituted analog of lupulone, or a combination thereof.                                






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