THIS OPINION IS NOT BINDING PRECEDENT OF THE BOARD
Paper No. 24
UNITED STATES BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte GEETHA VASANTHAKUMAR
and JOHN A. MONTGOMERY
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Appeal No. 1994-1573
Application No. 07/552,744
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ON BRIEF
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Before McKELVEY, Senior Administrative Patent Judge, and
SCHAFER and TORCZON, Administrative Patent Judges.
TORCZON, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
Appellants seek review under 35 U.S.C. § 134 of the final
rejection of claims 1-7 (Paper No. 13 (Notice of Appeal)).1
We affirm in part.
BACKGROUND
Appellants filed the subject application for patent on
16 July 1990 (Paper No. 1).
The claimed subject matter relates to an enzyme present
in Plasmodium falciparum parasites. These parasites cause
malaria in mammalian hosts. P. falciparum parasites are
1Claim 8 was withdrawn from consideration by the examiner
when Appellants elected claims 1-7 in response to the
examiner's restriction requirement (Paper No. 6 (Rej.) at 2).
See 37 CFR § 1.142. Claims 1-7 are reproduced in an Appendix
to this decision.
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