Appeal No. 93-3623 Page 2
Application 07/629,690
part of 06/896,724 (filed 15 August 1986, now abandoned). The
07/072,754 application was the subject of Ex parte Shively,
Appeal No. 90-2219 (Bd. Pat. App. & Inter. 27 Aug. 1990),
affirmed, Appeal No. 91-1025 (Fed. Cir. 1991) (Fed. Cir. R. 36).
3. Appellant indicates (Paper 18 (App. Brief) at 3) that
the Federal Circuit also reviewed his 06/896,724 application as
part of a consolidated appeal. The record indicates that the
Federal Circuit reviewed the 06/892,579 application, filed
1 August 1986, now abandoned. Ex parte Shively, Appeal
No. 89-2337 (Bd. Pat. App. & Inter. 27 Aug. 1990), affirmed,
Appeal No. 91-1024 (Fed. Cir. 1991) (Fed. Cir. R. 36). Appellant
has not indicated a claim for the benefit of 06/892,579
application in the present application.
4. The present application is a divisional application
from the 07/174,956 application. (Paper 2 (Req. Div. Appl'n.).)
The resulting 5,061,635 patent has method, but not apparatus,
claims.
5. The present application is entitled "Protein or peptide
sequencing method and apparatus". The subject matter of the
invention is reactors for peptide sequenators. (Paper 1 (Spec.)
at 1.)
6. The claims on appeal broadly encompass three distinct
embodiments. Claims 1, 9, and 19 illustrate the first (Fig. 1),
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