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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 XUANCHAUAN YU, MARICAR MIRANDA,
and NATHANIEL L. WILGANOWSKI
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Appeal No. 2006-0732
Application No. 10/060,974
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ON BRIEF
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Before SCHEINER, ADAMS, and GRIMES, Administrative Patent Judges.
GRIMES, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner’s final
rejection of claims 1, 2, and 4-6, all of the claims remaining. Claim 2 is representative
and reads as follows:
2. An isolated nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleotide sequence that
encodes the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:2.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Bork et al., “Sequences and topology: Deriving biological knowledge from
genomic sequences,” Current Opinion in Structural Biology, Vol. 8, pp. 331-332 (1998)
Skolnick et al., “From genes to protein structure and function: Novel applications
of computational approaches in the genomic era,” TIBTECH, Vol. 18, pp. 34-38 (2000)
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