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                  Appeal No. 1997-3020                                                                                                                    
                  Application 08/149,101                                                                                                                  

                  35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph (enablement), for the reasons stated above to the extent                                               
                  the examiner's position is based upon the non-enablement of hybrid cytokines.  Since the                                                
                  examiner has conceded that one skilled in the art would be able to make and use the DNA                                                 
                  molecules recited in claims 12 through 26 and 28 to produce recombinant hybrid                                                          
                  cytokines, we reverse this rejection.                                                                                                   
                                                              REVERSED                                                                                   












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