The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper No. 42 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ________________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ________________ Ex parte ATSUNORI MORI, YOSHITAKA IKEDA, KOICHI KINOSHITA and SHOHEI INOUE ________________ Appeal No. 1997-3586 Application No. 08/240,811 ________________ ON BRIEF ________________ Before KIMLIN, JOHN D. SMITH and WALTZ, Administrative Patent Judges. KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 9- 13, all the claims remaining in the present application. Claim 9 is illustrative: 9. A method for producing (S)-cyanohydrins by allowing hydrogen cyanide to react with aldehydes in the presence of a catalytic amount of cyclo-[(S)-leucyl-(S)-histidyl]. -1-Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007