Appeal No. 1997-1954
Application 08/154,903
wherein
1
R is hydrogen, C -C alkyl or C -C alkoxy;1 4 1 4
2
R is hydrogen or C -C alkyl;
1 4
3
R is hydrogen, C -C alkyl, phenyl or substituted phenyl;
1 4
4
R is hydrogen, haloacetyl, C -C alkanoyl, benzoly or benzoyl substituted with halo
1 5
or methyl;
5 6
R and R are each independently hydrogen or halo; and
7
R is hydrogen or C -C alkyl;
1 4
2 5 6
provided that when R is hydrogen then at least one of R and R is halo.
The references relied upon by the examiner are:
Short et al. (Short) 4,600,723 July 15, 1986
Flaugh 4,997,845 March 5, 1991
An additional reference discussed by this merits panel is:
Frohn et al. (Frohn), “Structure-Activity Relationship of Melatonin Analogues,”
Life Sciences, Vol. 27, No. 22, pp. 2043-2046 (1980).
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