Appeal No. 95-4440
Application 07/841,707
rejections of Claims 19 and 20, the only claims remaining in
this application.
Introduction
Claims 19 and 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(a)
as being anticipated by, or under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable in view of, Böck et al. (Bock), U.S. 5,019,514,
patented May 28, 1991. Claims 19 and 20 also stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by, or under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable in view of, Kato et al.
(Kato), U.S. 3,931,146, patented January 6, 1976; Leathers et
al. (Leathers), “Pullulan Production by Color Variant Strains
of Aureobasidium pullulans,” Journal of Industrial
Microbiology, Vol. 3, pp. 231-239 (1988); Wickerham et al.
(Wickerham), “Synergistic Color Variants of Aureobasidium
Pullulans,” Mycologia, Vol. 67, pp. 342-361 (1975); Na et al.
(Na), “Screening of Strains Producing Extracellular
Polysaccharides of No Pigments and Determination of Their
Products,” Weishengwuxue Tongbao, Vol. 17, pp. 7-9 (1990); or
Kelly et al. (Kelly), “The Effect of Ethidium Bromide
Mutagenesis on Dimorphism, Extracellular Metabolism and
Cytochrome Levels in Aureobasidium pullulans,” Journal of
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