Ex Parte Carlson - Page 22


                 Appeal No.  2004-2317                                                         Page 22                   
                 Application No.  09/771,938                                                                             
                 6) or plant cell (claim 11) has one of the profiles does not mean that the plant, or                    
                 plant cell would not also exhibit the other profile.                                                    
                        In addition, we direct the examiner’s attention to claims 6 and 11 of Appeal                     
                 No. 2005-0396.  As we understand it, notwithstanding differences in the SSR and                         
                 isozyme profiles, the disclosure in the specification as well as the language of the                    
                 claims is substantially similar to that of the instant application.  Nevertheless, the                  
                 examiner in Appeal No. 2005-0396 apparently found that appellant’s specification                        
                 provided an adequate written description of the claimed invention as no rejection                       
                 of claims 6 and 11 was made under the written description provision of 35 U.S.C.                        
                 § 112, first paragraph in Appeal No. 2005-0396.  Accordingly, we find that the                          
                 examiner has treated claims 6 and 11 in a manner that is inconsistent with the                          
                 prosecution of similar claims in related application 10/077,589, which is the                           
                 subject matter of Appeal No. 2005-0396.                                                                 
                        For the foregoing reasons, we are not persuaded by the examiner’s                                
                 arguments.                                                                                              
                                                     Claims 27-30                                                        
                        According to the examiner (Answer, page 18), “[c]laims 27-30 are drawn                           
                 towards I015036 plants further comprising a single locus conversion, or wherein                         
                 the single locus was stably inserted into a corn genome by transformation.”  The                        
                 examiner finds, however, that “the specification does not describe identified or                        
                 isolated single loci for all corn plant traits.”  Answer, page 19.  More specifically,                  
                 the examiner finds (id.), claims 27-30 “broadly encompass single loci that have                         
                 not been discovered or isolated.”  To the extent that the examiner is asserting                         







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