Appeal no. 1997-3953
Application 08/392,615
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the final rejection of claims 3
through 5 and 8 through 22, all the claims remaining in the application. Claims 8, 9 and 14
are representative and read as follows:
8. A culture medium for a starter culture for winemaking involving malolactic
fermentation, said culture medium being a synthetic non-vegetable juice containing
medium comprising on an aqueous liquid medium basis:
(a) from about 4 to about 6% of a sole carbohydrate source consisting essentially of
fructose and glucose and containing on a fructose plus glucose basis from about 97% to
about 55% fructose and from about 3% to about 45% glucose,
(b) from about 0.19% to about 0.7% L-malic acid or salt thereof,
(c) malolactic bacteria growth supporting amount of a nitrogen source,
(d) malolactic bacteria growth supporting amount of essential minerals and
vitamins.
9. A method of propagating Leuconostoc oenos strains selected from the group
consisting of Er-1a, Lo107, Lo42, PSU-1, Lc5m and Oeno, said method comprising
propagating said bacteria in a culture medium which consists essentially of the culture
medium of Claim 8.
14. A culture medium for a starter culture for winemaking involving malolactic
fermentation, said culture medium being a synthetic non-vegetable juice containing
medium comprising on an aqueous liquid medium basis:
(a) from about 4 to about 6% of a sole carbohydrate source consisting essentially of
fructose and glucose and containing on a fructose plus glucose basis from about 97% to
about 50% fructose and from about 3% to about 50% glucose,
(b) from about 0.19% to about 0.7% L-malic acid or salt thereof,
(c) malolactic bacteria growth supporting amount of a nitrogen source,
(d) malolactic bacteria growth supporting amount of essential minerals and
vitamins.
The reference relied on by the examiner is:
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