The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 33 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte KARL-HEINZ, GERTUND and GERTUND EBERLE-ADAMKIEWICS __________ Appeal No. 2001-0756 Application No. 08/666,400 __________ ON BRIEF __________ Before WINTERS, SCHEINER, and ADAMS, Administrative Patent Judges. ADAMS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner’s final rejection of claims 58-67, which are all the claims pending in the application. Claim 58 is illustrative of the subject matter on appeal and is reproduced below: 58. A method for immobilizing biomolecules and affinity ligands, said method comprising the steps of: a) reacting water insoluble matrices, having amino groups and being selected from the group consisting of test tubes, microtiter plates, microscope slides, beads, membranes, resins, and filters, with a cyclobutene carboxylic acid derivative, selected from the group consisting of cyclobutene carboxylic acid diester, cyclobutene carboxylic acid halide, cyclobutene carboxylic acid ester halide, cyclobutene carboxylic acid dialkoxyester, and cyclobutene carboxylic acid imidazole, as an activatingPage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007