Interference 103,579
l. 6-8; emphasis added). All the genetic constructs claimed in
Visser’s involved application for use in creating its claimed
transgenic potato plants, tubers with an “essentially amylose-
free starch” (VR 140, l. 5-6) composition, and methods for
creating transgenic potato plants which produce tubers with an
“essentially amylose-free starch” (VR 140, l. 5-6) composition,
are constructs of “full length potato granule-bound starch
synthase (PGBSS) cDNA or genomic DNA” (Visser’s Claims 1, 15,
and 23; emphasis added). Accordingly, we must first determine
the meaning of the term “full length” in the phrase “full length
potato granule-bound starch synthase (PGBSS) cDNA or genomic DNA”
from which the “construct[s] . . . [containing (Claims 1 and 15)
or comprising (Claim 23)] a full length potato granule-bound
starch synthase (PGBSS) cDNA or genomic DNA” of Visser’s
Claims 1, 15, and 23 are to be made before we can compare full
length potato granule-bound starch synthase (PGBSS) cDNA or
genomic DNA to the SEQ ID Nos. 1, 2, and 3 of Hofvander’s
“construct[s] . . . comprising . . . a promoter [and a] fragment
selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID No. 1, SEQ ID
No. 2 and SEQ ID No. 3" (Hofvander’s Claim 7); SEQ ID No. 4
of Hofvander’s “DNA molecule comprising an isolated promoter
from the potato gene coding for . . . GBSS . . .” (Hofvander’s
Claims 21 and 23), e.g., “said promoter having the nucleotide
-37-
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