Appeal No. 95-4435
Application No. 07/833,146
remaining in the application, stand withdrawn from further
consideration by the examiner as directed to a non-elected
invention.
Claim 22, which is illustrative of the subject matter on
appeal, reads as follows:
22. An oligonucleotide wherein at least one nucleotide unit
of said olignonucleotide [sic, oligonucleotide] includes a
phosphate moiety having the following structural formula:
*
O
*
O = P - O -
*
(Y)n
*
- +
A - CH - M , wherein n is O or 1; and
Y is:
(Z) -R , wherein R is a hydrocarbon, p is O or 1, and Z isp 1 1
oxygen, sulfur, or NR , wherein R is hydrogen or a2 2
hydrocarbon; M is:+
R3
*
N - R + 4
*
R5
wherein each of R , R , and R is hydrogen or a3 4 5
hydrocarbon, and each of R , R , and R may be the same or3 4 5
different, and A- is selected from the group consisting of
- 2-
COO-, SO , and PO .3 3
As stated in the Examiner's Answer, page 2, sections (7)
and (8), the examiner does not rely on any prior art of
-2-
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