Appeal No. 1995-2659
Application 07/896,705
Other Issue
During our review of the record, we observed that
parent application 07/576,633, which issued as US Patent
No. 5,185,252, contains claims drawn to an invention
substantially similar to those here at issue. Two of
those patented claims are reproduced below:
An improved process for enzymatic oxidation of a fatty
acid in the presence of water and oxygen wherein the
improvement comprises substantially uniformly
distributing the fatty acid, water and enzyme for
the
oxidation throughout a porous bed of solid
support material in the substantial absence of a
continuous liquid phase; passing oxygen through
the bed without fluidizing or stirring the bed;
and recovering the oxidation product from the
bed.
5. A process according to claim 1 wherein some of
the fatty acid distributed
through the bed is in the form of a fat.
A restriction requirement was made in the parent
application. Since review of that requirement is outside
our jurisdiction, we remand the application back to the
examiner to consider whether the claims in this
application are still drawn in line with that
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