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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 25
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte KYOUICHI OHSHIRO
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Appeal No. 2002-1360
Application No. 09/133,942
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ON BRIEF
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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 1-10, all of the claims in the application. Claim 1 is
representative and reads as follows:
1. A method for measuring in solution the concentration of urinary
trypsin inhibitor in a sample comprising:
adding antibodies against urinary trypsin inhibitor that are not
adhered to an insoluble support to the sample in a reaction
solution;
measuring the degree of the resulting agglutination in the reaction
solution; and
correlating the degree of agglutination to the inhibitor concentration.
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