Ex parte HUNTER et al. - Page 8

                 Appeal No. 97-2877                                                                                                                     
                 Application No. 08/334,096                                                                                                             


                                                                    DECISION                                                                            
                          The decision of the examiner rejecting claims 1 through 5                                                                     
                 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b), and 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) is reversed                                                                           
                 because neither of the applied references discloses “each and                                                                          
                 every limitation” of the claimed invention.4                                                                                           
                                                                    REVERSED                                                                            


                                            JAMES D. THOMAS                                       )                                                     
                                            Administrative Patent Judge                           )                                                     
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                                                                                                  ) BOARD OF PATENT                                     
                                            KENNETH W. HAIRSTON                                   )     APPEALS                                         
                                            Administrative Patent Judge                           )       AND                                           
                                                                                                  )  INTERFERENCES                                      
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                                            ANITA PELLMAN GROSS                                   )                                                     
                                            Administrative Patent Judge                           )                                                     








                          4  Glaxo Inc. v. Novopharm Ltd., 52 F.3d 1043, 1047,                                                                          
                 34 USPQ2d 1565, 1567 (Fed. Cir.), cert. denied, 516 U.S. 988                                                                           
                 (1995).                                                                                                                                
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