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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 27
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte SHEN SHI-HSIANG,
AHMAD SULTAN,
CLAES WAHLESTEDT, and
PHILIPPE WALKER
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Appeal No. 2001-1900
Application No. 08/981,700
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ON BRIEF
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Before WILLIAM F. SMITH, ADAMS, and GREEN, 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 1, 13, 37, and 19, which are all the claims
pending in the application.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the subject matter on appeal and is reproduced
below:
1. A protein, except as existing in nature, consisting essentially of the rat
GAL-R2 amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO:2.
The reference relied upon by the examiner is:
Shuji et al. (Shuji) EP 0 711 830 A2 Oct. 11, 1995
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