Ex Parte van de Winkel - Page 8

                  Appeal No. 2005-1504                                                                                                                    
                  Application No. 09/820,099                                                                                                              
                                                                   Another Issue                                                                          
                           Upon return of the application to the corps, the examiner may wish to consider                                                 
                  whether the complex recited in claim 1 “reads on” monomeric IgA itself.  If so, the                                                     
                  examiner should determine whether there is any prior art which teaches a method of                                                      
                  administering monomeric IgA to a subject.                                                                                               
                                                                    REVERSED                                                                              






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