Appeal No. 95-5155
Application 07/855,805
8 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable in view
of the combined teachings of Lee et al. (Lee), “Oat (Avena
sativa) Caryopses as a Natural Lipase Bioreactor,” JAOCS, Vol.
67, no. 11, pp. 761-765 (November 1990), and Balsam, U.S.
3,713,980, patented January 30, 1973.
On consideration of the record, including the Brief on
Appeal, Examiner’s Answer, the applied prior art, and Hammond
et al. (Hammond), U.S. 5,089,403, patented February 18, 1992,
the latter to aid our understanding of Lee’s teaching and its
relationship to the subject matter of the claims on appeal,
it is
ORDERED that the examiner’s decision rejecting
Claims 1-8 is reversed.
Balsam neither (1) falls within the same field of
endeavor as the subject matter claimed, nor (2) is reasonably
pertinent to the particular problem with which applicants are
concerned. Applicants’ invention is directed to a rapid
process for hydrolyzing oleaginous materials into fatty acids
and glycerol using lipase, in this case immobilized lipase in
the form of comminuted lipase-containing seeds. Balsam is
concerned with extracting therapeutic peruvoside from the
- 2 -
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007