Ex Parte BORNSCHEUER et al - Page 24

              Appeal No. 2005-1745                                                                                     
              Application No. 09/161,680                                                                               
              be carefully controlled”.  Id.  Thus, the examiner may wish to consider whether the                      
              present method would have been obvious in view of these teachings in combination with                    
              teachings of cloned enzyme genes.                                                                        


                               AFFIRMED IN PART; NEW GROUND OF REJECTION                                               




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