Ex parte BEHR et al. - Page 3


             Appeal No. 2000-2007                                                                                    
             Application 09/063,784                                                                                  

             where Kupferberg teaches or suggests incorporating the metabolite described in that                     
             reference into a liposome or combining the metabolite with a phospholipid or a                          
             ganglioside as required by the claims on appeal.                                                        
                    Where as here, the examiner's consideration of the patentability of the claims is                
             based upon less than the subject matter of the claims as a whole, the examiner's                        
             rejections are legally in error and cannot be sustained.                                                
                    The decision of the examiner is reversed.                                                        

                                                    REVERSED                                                         






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