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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 HSUAN-YIN LAN-HARGEST,
ROBERT J. KAUFMAN, and NORBERT L. WIECH
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Appeal No. 2003-2139
Application No. 09/812,945
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ON BRIEF
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Before WINTERS, SCHEINER, and ADAMS, 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, 2, 4-7, 10, 12, 17, 18, 40-46, which are all
the claims pending in the application.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the subject matter on appeal and is reproduced in
the attached appendix.
The references relied upon by the examiner are:
Richon et al. (Richon), “A class of hybrid polar inducers of transformed cell
differentiation inhibits histone deacetylases,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., Vol.
95, No. 6, PubMed Abstract (1998)
Marks et al. (Marks), “Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors: Inducers of Differentiation
or Apoptosis of Transformed Cells,” J. National Cancer Institute, Vol. 92, No. 15,
pp. 1210-16 (2000)
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