The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written
for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte MICHEL G. M. PERBOST
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Appeal No. 2004-1770
Application No. 09/895,050
ON BRIEF
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Before WILLIAM F. SMITH, FLEMING 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 29, 30, 32, 34, and 35. Claims 31 and 33 are also pending; the
examiner has indicated that claim 31 is allowable and claim 33 would be allowable if
amended to remove its dependence on a rejected claim. Claim 29 is representative of
the claims on appeal and reads as follows:
29. An apparatus for fabricating an addressable array of biopolymers on a
substrate according to a target pattern, comprising:
(a) a deposition system which can separately dispense onto a substrate, fluid
compositions of different biomonomers each with a first linking group which must be
activated for linking to a substrate bound moiety, and a fluid composition of a solid
activator;
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