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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 KRISHNA KALGHATGI and SATISH JINDAL
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Appeal No. 2006-2493
Application No. 10/126,122
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ON BRIEF
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Before ADAMS, MILLS and GREEN, 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 1-11, which are all the claims pending in the
application.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the subject matter on appeal and is reproduced
below:
1. A method for identifying a member of a mass-coded molecular library
which is a ligand for a biomolecule and binds to the biomolecule at the
binding site of a known second ligand for the biomolecule, said method
comprising the steps of:
(a) contacting the biomolecule with a mass-coded molecular library, said
mass-coded molecular library comprising compounds of the general
formula XYn, wherein n is an integer from 2 to about 6, X is a scaffold
and each Y is, independently, a peripheral moiety, wherein there exist
at least about 250 distinct combinations of n peripheral moieties, and
wherein each of at least about 90% of the combinations of n peripheral
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