Appeal No. 95-0865 Application 08/08/007,950 The examiner's rejections 6. The examiner made the following four rejections in the final rejection (Paper 6). 7. Claims 6-19 and 22 were finally rejected (Paper 6, page 2) as being unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 103 over: a. Bisacchi, U.S. Patent 5,064,961 (1991) or Slusarchyk, European Patent Application 0 352 013 (published Jan. 24, 1990) b. in view of Searcey, IMPROVED SYNTHESES OF N-SUBSTITUTED NITROIMIDAZOLES, Synthetic Communications, Vol. 19, pages 1309-15 (1989). 8. Claims 6-13 and 25 were finally rejected (Paper 6, page 5) as being unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 103 over Hagberg I, European Patent Application 0 055 239 (published June 30, 1982). In the Examiner's Answer (Paper 9, page 6), the examiner refers to claims 6-13 and 23-24 and does not mention claim 25. Claims 23-24 were cancelled (Paper 5, page 2). Hence, we will assume that the examiner intended in the Examiner's Answer to maintain a rejection claims 6-13 and 25. 9. Claims 20-21 were finally rejected (Paper 6, page 6) as being unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 103 over: - 6 -Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007