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publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 16
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
__________
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
__________
Ex parte WIESLAW KUDLICKI and BOYD HARDESTY
__________
Appeal No. 2001-2500
Application No. 08/590,729
__________
ON BRIEF
__________
Before WILLIAM F. SMITH, SCHEINER, and GRIMES, Administrative Patent
Judges.
GRIMES, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner’s
final rejection of claims 1 -9, all of the claims in the application. Claims 1 and 2
are representative and read as follows:
1. A method of synthesizing a fluorescently labeled protein in a
prokaryotic cell-free protein synthesis system, comprising
the steps of :
(a) incubating a sample of ribosomes obtained from a cell-free
extract with plasmid DNA containing a coding sequence for a
Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007