Appeal No. 1996-1093
Application No. 07/300,357
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the final rejection of claims 11, 12, and 44-55,
all the claims remaining in the application. Claim 53 is representative of the subject matter on appeal
and reads as follows:
53. Isolated nucleic acid molecule consisting of the E. coli or S. Tymphimurium mg1
promoter/operator region up to, but not including the ATG codon which is the initiation point of
translation of an mg1 operon.
The references relied upon by the examiner are:
Muller et al. (Muller), “Characterization of the Salmonella typhimurium mgl Operon and its Gene
products,” Journal of Bacteriology, Vol. 163, pages 37-45 July 1985.
Scripture et al. (Scripture), “The Nucleotide Sequences Defining the Signal Peptides of the Galactose-
binding Protein and the Arabinose binding Protein,” Journal of Biological Chemistry, Vol. 258, pages
10853-10855 September 1983.
Yanisch-Perron et al. (Perron), “Improved M13 phage cloning vectors and host strains: nucleotide
sequences of the M13mp18 and pUC19 vectors,” Gene, 1983 pages 103-119.
Waye et al. (Waye), “EcoK selection vectors for shotgun cloning into M13 and deletions mutagenesis,”
Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 13, pages 8561-8571 1985.
Maniatis et al. (Maniatis), “Molecular cloning: a laboratory manual,” Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory,
Cold Spring Harbor, New York, page 422 1982.
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