Appeal No. 95-0565
Application 07/867,089
discloses, a process which appears to be designed to avoid
contacting glycosides with contaminating reducing agents, to
contaminate the glycoside composition with borohydride without
any apparent functional improvement over the process McDaniel
‘918 describes and exemplifies.
As said in In re Dow Chemical Co., 837 F.2d 469, 473,
5 USPQ2d 1529, 1532 (Fed. Cir. 1988):
There must be a reason or suggestion in the art for
selecting the procedure used, other than the knowledge
learned from the applicant’s disclosure.
Because we find no reason or suggestion in the prior art to
select the procedure appellants claim, we reverse the
examiner’s rejection.
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