Appeal No. 2006-2575
Application No. 10/025,567
rumen or intestinal tracts of food animals and thus reduce their ability to
multiply, grow and colonize.” (Id. at 7 (underlining omitted).)
DISCUSSION
1. CLAIM CONSTRUCTION
Claims 1, 3, 5-7, and 12-29 are pending and on appeal. Appellants
separate the claims into two groups for argument. (Br. 11.) Group I consists
of claims 1, 3, 5, 13, 16, and 19, and Group II consists of claims 6, 7, 12, 14,
15, 17, 18, and 20-29. (Id. at 11-12.)
Claims 1, 5, 6, and 13 are representative, and read as follows:
1. A microbial adherence inhibitor for administration to food
animals to inhibit the adherence of a targeted colony-forming immunogen in
the rumen or intestinal tracts of said food animals produced by the method
of:
A. Inoculating female chickens, in or about to reach their
egg laying age, with a particular target colony-forming immunogen;
B. Allowing a period of time sufficient to permit the
production in the chickens of antibody to the target colony-forming
immunogen, said antibody in the eggs including IgY immunoglobulins in
the yolks of the eggs and IgM and IgA immunoglobulins in the albumin of
the eggs;
C. Harvesting the eggs laid by the chickens;
D. Separating the entire contents of said harvested eggs
from the shells; and
E. Drying said separated entire contents of said eggs, said
dried entire contents of said eggs when administered to food animals with
animal feed promoting the growth of the food animals by decreasing the
waste of dietary protein caused by the presence of a colony-forming
immunogen in the rumen or intestinal tracts of the food animals by binding
the IgY immunoglobulins to the colony-forming immunogen, said binding
of the IgY immunoglobulins to the colony-forming immunogen being
assisted by the IgM and IgA immunoglobulins to inhibit the ability of the
protein-wasting immunogen to adhere to the rumen or intestinal tracts of the
animals.
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