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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 PETER LIND, LINDA S. WOOD,
LUIS A. PARODI, and GABRIEL VOGELI
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Appeal No. 2005-0792
Application No. 09/750,373
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ON BRIEF
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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 1, 7-10, 12-25 and 29-33, which are all the
claims pending in the application.
Claim 25 is illustrative of the subject matter on appeal and is reproduced
below:
25. An isolated nucleic acid molecule comprising SEQ ID NO:12.
The references relied upon by the examiner are:
Bork et al. (Bork ‘96), “Go Hunting in Sequence Databases but Watch out for the
Traps,” Trends in Genetics, Vol. 12, No. 10, pp. 425-427 (1996)
Smith et al. (Smith), “The Challenges of Genome Sequence Annotation or ‘The
Devil is in the Details,’” Nature Biotechnology, Vol. 15, pp. 1222-1223 (1997)
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