Appeal No. 1997-1826
Application No. 08/304,951
The appealed claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as unpatentable over Carabateas (Answer, page 2). We affirm
this rejection for reasons which follow.
OPINION
The compounds specified in claim 14 on appeal contain an
unsubstituted amino substituent at the 9-position (see formula
II-H). The examiner finds that Carabateas discloses compounds
which are generic to the compounds claimed by appellants
(Answer, page 2, citing Carabateas, col. 1, l. 45+).
Appellants do not contest this finding (Answer, page 3; Brief,
page 5; Reply Brief, page 1). The examiner finds that
Carabateas discloses several examples of specific compounds
with an “amino-type group” on the benzene ring, such as an
alkylamino substituent (Answer, page 2, citing Carabateas,
col. 8, Table C, compounds 7J, 7K, and 7L). Appellants do not
contest this finding regarding the alkylamino substituents
(Brief, sentence bridging pages 5-6).
The examiner finds that loweralkylamino substituents are
considered to be equivalent to primary amino substituents on
the benzene ring by Carabateas (Answer, page 2, citing
Carabateas, col. 1, ll. 63-65). In view of these findings,
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