Appeal No. 1996-1009
Application No. 07/949,551
WEBSTER’S NEW COLLEGIATE DICTIONARY 85 (9th ed. 1983).
Appellants rely on the following reference supplied with their reply brief:
A. Lane and Ulf Lindahl (Lane), BIOSYNTHESIS OF HEPARIN AND RELATED
POLYSACCHARIDES 164 (Chemical and Biological Properties Clinical Applications Ed., Edward
Arnolds, London, 1989).
ISSUES2
Claims 15-18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over any of Naggi
‘063, Naggi ‘881, Petitou or Conti. We REVERSE.
In reaching our decision in this appeal we have given careful consideration to the appellants’
specification and claims and to the respective positions articulated by the appellants and the examiner.
We make reference to the examiner’s answer (Paper No. 15, mailed
April 17, 1995) for the examiner’s reasoning in support of the rejections and to the appellants’ brief
(Paper No. 14, filed February 15, 1995) and to the appellants’ reply brief (Paper No. 17, filed June
16, 1995) for the appellants’ arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
2 According to the advisory action mailed November 17, 1994 (Paper No. 11), the amendment filed
November 8, 1994 (Paper No. 10) overcame the final rejection of claims 15-22 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second
paragraph, as being indefinite.
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