Appeal No. 1995-4188
Application 07/860,965
the outlet port; and
a flow mean adapted for flowing liquid through the
bed at a rate of 0.1 to 2.0 ml/min, thereby providing a
target molecule in said sample insufficient time in the
vicinity of said said antigen-binding site and said labelled
antigen for equilibration.
THE REFERENCES
Gray et al. (Gray) 4,277,560 Jul. 7,
1981
Enzyme-Immunoassay 224-33, 243, 289 (Edward T. Maggio, ed.,
CRC Press 1980) (Maggio).
THE REJECTIONS
The claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
follows: claims 40, 42, 45, 50-53 and 56-63 over Maggio, and 1
claims 43 and 44 over Maggio in view of Gray.2
1The examiner withdrew the rejection of claim 47 in the
supplemental answer (page 4) and indicated that this claim is
objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but
would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including
all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening
claims.
2The examiner states in the supplemental answer (page 2)
that claim 46 is rejected. This claim, however, has been
canceled (amendment filed October 18, 1993, paper no. 11,
3
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