Appeal No. 94-2156
Application 07/888,366
stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(f) based on the
authorship of later-published Broekaert et al. (Lee I),
“Wound-Induced Accumulation of mRNA Containing a Hevein
Sequence in Laticifers of Rubber Tree (Hevea brasiliensis),”
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol. 87, pp. 7633-7637 (October
1990), and Lee et al. (Lee II), “Co- and Post-Translational
Processing of the Hevein Preproprotein of Latex of the Rubber
Tree (Hevea brasiliensis), J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 266, No. 24,
pp. 15944-15948 (August 25, 1991). Claim 4 stands rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable in view of the
subject matter appellants claim
Back et al., “Isolation of cDNA Clones Coding for Spinach
Nitrite Reductase: Complete Sequence and Nitrate Induction,”
Mol. Gen. Genet., Vol. 212, pp. 20-26 (1988);
Van der Plas et al., “The Gene for the Precursor of
Plastocyanin from the Cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7937:
Isolation, Sequence and Regulation,” Mol. Microbiol., Vol. 3,
No. 3, pp. 275-284 (1989).
While appellants have not objected to the examiner’s citation
of “other” references in support of the rejection under
section 103,
we are mindful of the following statement in In re Hoch, 428
F.2d 1341, 1342 n. 3, 166 USPQ 406, 407 n. 3 (CCPA 1970):
Where a reference is relied on to support a rejection,
whether of not in a “minor capacity,” there would appear
to be no excuse for not positively including the
reference
in the statement of the rejection.
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