Appeal No. 1996-2571
Application 08/119,058
is produced from unhardened or hardened vegetable fats or
fractions thereof. Glyceride system B is a mixture of 5-20
weight % of monoglyceride, 40-60 weight % of diglyceride, and
20-50 weight % of triglyceride. Glyceride system B has a
hydroxyl number of 50-190 and an iodine number of below 30,
and is produced from hardened vegetable oils or fractions
thereof.
IV. DISCUSSION
A. Rejection over Lin in view of Uemura.
1. Lin is directed to a vegetable oil vehicle, which can
be any natural or synthetic pharmaceutically acceptable
vegetable oil. Lin discloses that the oils can comprise a
mono-, di- or triglyceride, alone or in combination, prepared
from saturated fatty acids. Lin discloses that it is
preferred that the oil be a glyceryl ester of a C to C14 22
saturated and/or unsaturated fatty acid. Lin, column 3,
lines 9-18. The vegetable oil vehicles exemplified by Lin
include sesame oil, corn oil, and glyceryl mono-oleate. See,
for example, Lin, Formulations 1-A, 2-B and 3-B.
2. Uemura is directed to a drug carrier comprising an
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