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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 LIRONG LIU,
ALEX SHLYANKEVICH, and ANAND BAICHWAL
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Appeal No. 2005-0416
Application No. 09/970,020
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ON BRIEF1
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Before WILLIAM F. SMITH, ADAMS and GRIMES, 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 24-54, which are all the claims pending in the
application.
Claim 24 is illustrative of the subject matter on appeal and is reproduced
below:
24. An orally administrable pharmaceutical composition comprising a
therapeutically effective amount of an immediate release formulation
comprising a (-) chiral compound enantiomer or a pharmaceutically
acceptable salt thereof; and a controlled release formulation
comprising a (+) chiral compound enantiomer or a pharmaceutically
1 Appellants waived their request for oral hearing. Paper received March 28, 2005. Accordingly,
we considered this appeal on Brief.
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