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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 44
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte STEFANO MARULLO,
COLETTE DELAVIER,
LAURENT EMORINE, and
DONNY STROSBERG
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Appeal No. 2001-1436
Application No. 08/422,612
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ON BRIEF
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Before WILLIAM F. SMITH, MILLS, 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 16-25, 41, and 44-53, all of the claims remaining. Claim
41 is representative and reads as follows:
41. A yeast cell stably transformed with an expression vector
comprising:
(a) an insert encoding a mammalian receptor comprising seven
hydrophobic transmembrane segments, extracellular and
intracellular loops, an extracellular amino terminal region,
and a carboxyl terminal cytoplasmic region; and
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