Appeal No. 94-3676
Application 07/949,327
DECISION ON APPEAL UNDER 35 U.S.C. § 134
This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from an
examiner’s rejections of Claims 12-22, 24-28, 32, and 35.
1. Introduction
Claims 12-17, 24-28, and 32 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C.
§ 103 as unpatentable in view of the combined teachings of
Yabrov, “Interferon and Nonspecific Resistance,” Human
Sciences Press, New York, NY, pp. 25-28 (1980), and Goeddel et
al. (Goeddel), “The Structure of Eight Distinct Cloned Human
Leukocyte Interferon cDNAs,” Nature, Vol. 290, pp. 20-26
(1981). Claims 12-22, 24-28, 32, and 35 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as unpatentable in view of the combined teachings of
Yabrov, Goeddel, and Nagata et al. (Nagata), “Synthesis in
E. coli of a Polypeptide with Human Leukocyte Interferon
Activity,” Nature, Vol. 284, pp. 316-320 (1980). Claims 12-
22, 24-28, 32, and 35 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
unpatentable in view of the combined teachings of Yabrov,
Goeddel, and Ptashne et al. (Ptashne), U.S. 4,332,892, which
issued June 1, 1982, from an application filed January 10,
1980.
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