Appeal No. 1999-2200 Application No. 08/896,063 the examiner’s Answers, and Supplemental Answers (when presented) for the examiner’s reasoning in support of the rejections. We will further reference appellants’ Briefs and Reply Briefs (when presented) for appellants’ arguments in favor of patentability. REFERENCES The references relied upon by the examiners are presented below with a footnote corresponding to the appeal upon which they relate: Bettler et al. (Bettler ‘90), “Cloning of a Novel Glutamate Receptor Subunit, GluR5: Expression in the Nervous System during Development,” Neuron, Vol. 5, pp. 583-95 (1990)6 Bettler et al. (Bettler ’92), “Cloning of a Putative Glutamate Receptor: A Low Affinity Kainate-Binding Subunit,” Neuron, Vol. 8, 257-65 (1992)7 Birnbaumer et al. (Birnbaumer), “Development and Characterization of a Mouse Cell Line Expressing the Human V2 Vasopressin Receptor Gene,” Mol. Endocrinol., Vol. 4(2), pp. 245-54 (1990)8 Blackstone et al., (Blackstone), “Immunological Detection of Glutamate Receptor Subtypes in Human Central Nervous System,” Annals of Neurology, Vol. 31(6), pp. 680-83 (1992)9 Cutting et al. (Cutting), “Cloning of the [.gamma]-aminobutyric acid (GABA) [.rho]1 cDNA: A GABA receptor subunit highly expressed in the retina,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA, Vol. 88, pp. 2673-677 (1991)10 Durand et al. (Durand), “Splice variants of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor NR1 identify domains involved in regulation by polyamines and protein kinase C,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA, Vol. 90, pp. 6731-735 (1993)11 Egebjerg et al. (Egebjerg), “Cloning of a cDNA for a glutamate receptor subunit activated by kainate but not AMPA,” Nature, Vol. 351, pp. 745-48 (1991)12 6 (Bettler ‘90) Appeal No.: 1999-0350. 7 (Bettler ’92) Appeal Nos.: 1998-0217 and 1999-0399. 8 (Birnbaumer) Appeal No.: 1999-0350. 9 (Blackstone) Appeal No.: 2000-0440. 10 (Cutting) Appeal Nos.: 1997-3221, 1997-3377, and 1999-2200. 11 (Durand) Appeal No.: 2000-0440. 6Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007