Appeal 2007-1132
Application 10/036,999
The array may be an addressable array wherein “different features
have different predetermined locations (‘address’) on a substrate carrying the
array” (Specification 1). More specifically, Appellants define an
“addressable array” as including “any one or two dimensional arrangement
of discrete regions (or ‘features’) bearing particular moieties (for example,
different polynucleotide sequences) associated with that region and
positioned at particular predetermined locations on the substrate (each such
location being an ‘address’)” (Specification 7).
The array and the substrate on which the array is deposited are the
minimum components of an “array ‘package’” (Specification 7). The array
package, however, may contain other components, including a housing (34)
and an identifier (54). According to Appellants’ Specification, the identifier
may provide instructions to alter the interrogating light power of a scanning
apparatus at a first site of the sites to be scanned and of a specified location
on the array package (Specification 8). “The specified sites (specified by
location on [the] array package 30) can be particular ones of features 16 or
can be other sites on the array package 30 . . . from which, for example,
unduly bright fluorescence from an adhesive might be expected, or regions
off the area covered by the array . . .” (Specification 9).
Claim 1:
Appellants’ claim 1 is drawn to a method. The method of claim 1
comprises three steps. Step (a) requires that an interrogating light be
scanned across multiple sites on an array package. According to step (a), the
array package comprises an addressable array of multiple biopolymeric
features of different moieties. In addition, step (a) requires that the scanned
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