Appeal No. 2000-1559 Page 2
Application No. 07/911,593
carried out in a series of injections using live or inactivated vaccines, alone or in
combination with each other or in combination with a rotavirus subunit vaccine or oral
vaccine.
It is important to note that the appealed claims are not limited to a human
rotavirus; but neither do they exclude human rotavirus. In this regard, the relevant
limitation in all of the appealed claims is a virus "classified in a rotavirus serotype which
includes at least one human rotavirus." Claims 5, 9, 29, and 36, which are illustrative of
the subject matter on appeal, read as follows:
5. An inactivated, parenteral vaccine against rotavirus infection, comprising:
an inactivated virus, wherein said virus is classified in a rotavirus serotype which
includes at least one human rotavirus.
9. A method for actively immunizing animals or humans against rotavirus
infection, comprising:
parenterally administering a first vaccine comprising about 1 x 102 to about 1
x 108 PFU/ml of a live virus classified in a rotavirus serotype which includes at least one
human rotavirus, and
parenterally administering a subsequent vaccine, said subsequent vaccine
comprising about 1 x 102 to about 1 x 108 PFU/ml of a live virus classified in a rotavirus
serotype which includes at least one human rotavirus.
29. A method for passively immunizing human or animal infants against
rotavirus infection, comprising:
parenterally administering to a mother before her infant's birth a first vaccine
according to claim 5, said first vaccine comprising about 1 x 102 to about 1 x 108
PFU/ml of virus, and
parenterally administering to said mother before her infant's birth a
subsequent vaccine according to claim 5, said subsequent vaccine comprising about 1
x 102 to about 1 x 108 PFU/ml of virus.
36. A method for passively immunizing animal or human infants against
rotavirus infection, comprising the steps of:
(a) parenterally administering to a nursing mother a vaccine comprising
about
1 x 102 to about 1 x 108 PFU/ml of a live or inactivated virus classified in a rotavirus
serotype which includes at least one human rotavirus; and
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