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                           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                                   for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 34                    
                         UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                      
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                              BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                        
                                             AND INTERFERENCES                                                          
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                                      Ex parte MALFROY-CAMINE BERNARD                                                   
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                                                Appeal No. 2001-2379                                                    
                                             Application No. 08/931,666                                                 
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                                                      ON BRIEF                                                          
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                 Before WILLIAM F. SMITH, ADAMS, 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 1-15, all of the claims remaining.  Claims 1 and 12 are                      
                 representative and read as follows:                                                                    
                        1.     A method for targeting an intracellular protein in a cell comprising                     
                               contacting said cell with a cationized antibody which thence enters                      
                               said cell and immunologically binds with said intracellular protein.                     
                        12.    A method for treating an individual infected by the HIV-1 virus                          
                               comprising administering to said individual an effective amount of a                     
                               cationized antibody which immunologically binds with an HIV-1                            
                               encoded trans-activating factor thereby reducing the reverse                             
                               transcriptase activity associated with said HIV-1 virus.                                 







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