Appeal No. 1997-2388
Application No. 08/326,304
absorbent material positioned adjacent said membrane, and a substrate for
said enzyme, said enzyme being selected from the group consisting of a
cyclase isomerase, peroxidase and hydrolase.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Bagshawe 3,888,629 Jun. 10, 1975
Cole 4,342,826 Aug. 3, 1982
Int. Pat. App. (Ebersole) WO 84/02193 Jun. 7, 1984
ISSUES
Claims 1, 4, and 8 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Ebersole. Claim 9 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Ebersole as applied to claim 1 in view of Cole. Claims 21, 23, and 25 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Ebersole in view of Bagshawe. We
REVERSE all three rejections.
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.
30, mailed July 23, 1996) for the examiner’s reasoning in support of the rejections and to
the appellants’ brief (Paper No. 29, filed April 4, 1996) for the appellants’ arguments
thereagainst.
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