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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 30
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte DAVID E. LEVY, JOAN E. DURBIN,
ADOLFO GARCIA-SASTRE and PETER PALESE
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Appeal No. 2002-1299
Application No. 08/962,740
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ON BRIEF1
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Before WILLIAM F. SMITH, ADAMS and MILLS, 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 1-5 and 35-37, which are all the claims
pending in the application.
Claims 1, 35 and 36 are illustrative of the subject matter on appeal and
are reproduced below:
1. An immortalized mammalian cell line homozygous for a Stat1 null
allele
35. The immortalized mammalian cell line of Claim 1, wherein viral
tropism of said cell line has been altered to be permissive for viral
growth relative to that of the same cell line with wild type alleles of
Stat1.
1 Appellants waived their request for Oral Hearing. Accordingly, we considered this appeal on
Brief.
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