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publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 54
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte DENNIS G. KLEID, DANIEL G. YANSURA,
HERBERT L. HEYNEKER and MIOZZARI F. GIUSEPPE
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Appeal No. 1999-1157
Application No. 08/482,321
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ON BRIEF
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Before WILLIAM F. SMITH, ADAMS and MILLS, Administrative Patent Judges.
ADAMS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL1
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner’s
final rejection of claims 1, 9, 10, and 35-37, which are all the claims pending in the
application.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the subject matter on appeal and is reproduced
below:
1. The method of producing a polypeptide product by the expression in
bacteria of a structural gene coding therefor which comprises:
(a) providing a bacterial inoculant transformed with a replicable plasmidic
expression vehicle having a sequence of double-stranded DNA
1 This application has a filing date of June 6, 1995. However, we note that this
application has an effective filing date of March 24, 1980.
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