Appeal 2007-0537
Application 10/102,902
wherein said features of said candidate molecule
fragment pair and query molecule fragment pair comprise
descriptors, said processor performing context-adaptive
scaling of said descriptors.
(Claim 1 (emphasis added to the disputed clause) (App. Br. 11; Reply Br. 1-
4).)
The Examiner has rejected all the pending claims, claims 1-27, under
35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as follows:
Claims 1-4, 6-10, 12-19, 21-23, and 25-26 over Cornilescu et al.,
Protein backbone angle restraints from searching a database for chemical
shift and sequence homology, 13 J. Biomolecular NMR 289-302 (1999)
(hereafter “Cornilescu”), and Gilhuijs et al., U.S. Patent No. 6,317,617
(issued Nov. 13, 2001) (hereafter “Gilhuijs”);
Claims 1, 11, 14, 20, 24, and 27 over Cornilescu, Gilhuijs, and Atta-
ur-Rahman, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance: Basic Principles 8-10 (Springer-
Verlag 1986) (hereafter “Atta-ur-Rahman”); and
Claim 5 over Cornilescu, Gilhuijs, and Aude et al., Applications of
pyramidal clustering method to biological objects, 23 Computers &
Chemistry 303-15 (1999).
PATENTABILITY UNDER § 103(a)
Claim 1
The patentability of claim 1 turns on the meaning of the claim phrase
“features of said candidate molecule fragment pair and query molecule
fragment pair comprise descriptors, said processor performing context-
adaptive scaling of said descriptors.” More specifically, it turns on the
meaning of “features,” “fragment pair,” “context-adaptive scaling,” and
3
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