Ex parte DAVIS et al. - Page 2




          Appeal No. 95-4692                                                          
          Application 08/141,316                                                      


          subject matter on appeal and are attached as an appendix to                 
          this                                                                        
          opinion.                                                                    


               The references relied on by the examiner are:                          
          Terahara et al. (Terahara ‘227)    4,346,227           Aug. 24,             
          1982                                                                        
          Terahara et al. (Terahara ‘859)    4,537,859           Aug. 27,             
          1985                                                                        
          American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), “Catalogue of                      
          Bacteria and Phages”, Seventeenth edition, pages 16 and 190                 
          (1989)                                                                      

               The claims stand rejected as follows:                                  
               I.   Claims 1 through 18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.                
          § 112, first paragraph, as being based on a specification                   
          which fails to provide an enabling disclosure.                              
               II. Claims 1 through 18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.                 
          § 103 as being unpatentable over Terahara ‘227 and Terahara                 
          ‘859 and pp. 16 and 190 of the ATCC catalogue.                              
               We reverse.                                                            


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