Appeal No. 1995-1304
Application No. 07/947,071
This appeal was taken from the examiner's decision
rejecting claims 1, 3 through 8, 10 through 16, 20 through 23,
and 25 through 30. Claims 31 through 33, which are the only
other claims remaining in the application, stand allowed.
REPRESENTATIVE CLAIM
Claim 1, which is illustrative of the subject matter on
appeal, reads as follows:
1. The method of hydrolytically cleaving RNA under
physiologically relevant conditions with a compound selected
from the group consisting of nucleosides, nucleotides and
oligodeoxy-nucleotides having attached thereto a metal complex
effective for RNA hydrolysis.
THE REJECTIONS
In rejecting the appealed claims on non-prior art
grounds, the examiner does not rely on any references.
The claims stand rejected as follows: (1) claims 1, 3
through 8, 10 through 16, 20 through 23, and 25 through 30
under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, "as being based on an
insufficient disclosure to support the scope of the claimed
subject matter"; and (2) claims 1, 3 through 8, 10 through 16,
20 through 23, and 25 through 30 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first
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