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and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 67
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte RONALD M. EVANS, ESTELITA S. ONG
and ANTHONY E. ORO
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Appeal No. 2003-1608
Application No. 08/425,716
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ON BRIEF
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Before WINTERS, WILLIAM F. SMITH, 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 26, 31, 35, 36 and 43, which are all the
claims pending in the application.
Claim 26 is illustrative of the subject matter on appeal and is reproduced
below:
26. An isolated Drosophila melanogaster knirps-related receptor
polypeptide having the sequence set forth in Figure 2.
The reference relied upon by the examiner is:
Oro et al. (Oro), “The Drosophila gene knirps-related is a member of the steroid-
receptor gene superfamily,” Nature, Vol. 336, pp. 493-496 (1988)
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