Appeal No. 2006-3006 Page 2
Application No. 10/123,713
Claims
Claims 1-13 are pending and subject of this appeal. They stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a). Br. 1. Claim 5 stands or falls apart from claims 1-4 and
6-13 because Appellants have provided separate arguments for its patentability.
Br. 7. We select claims 1 and 5 as representative of each claim grouping. See
37 C.F.R. § 41.37(c)(1)(vii).
1. An analytical system comprising:
a support member having a plurality of chemically active,
phenolic or proteinaceous receptor sites thereupon;
an array of different first members of a specific binding pair
immobilized on an uppermost surface of said support and separated
spatially from one another on the uppermost surface, said first
members being selected from the group consisting of: protein,
peptide, polysaccharide, cell fragments, cells, tissue, organometallics,
metal ion chelating organic ligands, and combinations thereof, said
first members each being capable of binding to a complementary
second member of said specific binding pair, whereby when said array
is contacted with a plurality of analyte complementary second
members, a plurality of specific binding pairs will be formed on said
support;
a peroxidase enzyme;
a coupling agent operative to couple said enzyme to said
specific binding pairs; and
a conjugate of a labeling agent and a substituted phenol
substrate for said enzyme, said substrate being activatable by said
enzyme so as to cause said substrate to bind to one of said chemically
active receptor sites whereby said substrate and said labeling agent are
immobilized upon said support member.
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