Appeal No. 2005-0545
Application No. 09/989,019
accumulation of fat when administered orally or topically with
suitable solubilizing and emulsifying agents for the elected form of
delivery. See, for example, Soudant, col. 3, l. 49, col. 4, 64, and
Examples 1-8; Koulbanis, col. 2, l. 67, to col. 3, l. 54, and
Examples III-VI; Majeed, col. 4, l. 47-49; and Sekiya, col. 2,
l. 35-58.
There are more explicit reasons why persons having ordinary
skill in the art would have combined agents thought to be active for
promoting fat degradation and/or lean body mass, controlling
digestion and absorption of lipids, increasing lipolysis, inhibiting
phosphodiesterase activity, promoting slimming, treating obesity and
regenerating tissue. First, certain of the cited prior art
references expressly state that persons having ordinary skill in the
art should combine active agents for a variety of reasons. Soudant
teaches persons having ordinary skill in the art to combine
lipolytic agents selected from a group including “growth factors
. . . xanthines . . . [and] carnitine . . .” (Soudant, col. 2,
l. 27-42). Soudant explains that certain slimming agents, for
example, the phosphodiesterase-inhibiting xanthine, caffeine, cannot
be used in high concentration (Soudant, col. 2, l. 15-24; emphasis
added):
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