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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 19
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte SEFTON JOHN
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Appeal No. 2003-0568
Application No. 09/264,531
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ON BRIEF
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Before WILLIAM F. SMITH, ADAMS and GREEN, 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 1-4, which are all the claims pending in the
application.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the subject matter on appeal and is reproduced
below:
1. A method for treating psoriasis and/or photodamage and/or acne in a
human subject by topically applying to the psoriatic or sundamaged
skin and/or acne of said subject an effective amount of tazarotene and
an effective amount of an alpha hydroxy acid.
The reference relied upon by the examiner is:
Yu et al. (Yu) 5,091,171 Feb. 25, 1992
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