Ex Parte Banerjee et al - Page 1



                             The opinion in support of the decision being entered today                      
                                      is not binding precedent of the Board.                                 
                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                              
                                                __________                                                   
                            BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                               
                                        AND INTERFERENCES                                                    
                                                __________                                                   
                        Ex parte DIPAK K. BANERJEE and JUAN A. MARTINEZ                                      
                                                __________                                                   
                                             Appeal 2007-1614                                                
                                          Application 09/779,447                                             
                                          Technology Center 1600                                             
                                                __________                                                   
                                         Decided:  August 14, 2007                                           
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                Before DONALD E. ADAMS, ERIC GRIMES, and LORA M. GREEN,                                      
                Administrative Patent Judges.                                                                
                GRIMES, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                         


                                         DECISION ON APPEAL                                                  
                      This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 involving claims to inhibiting                 
                angiogenesis by administering tunicamycin.  The Examiner has rejected the                    
                claims as obvious.  We have jurisdiction under 35 U.S.C. § 6(b).  We                         
                reverse.                                                                                     
                                             BACKGROUND                                                      
                      “Angiogenesis involves the development of new and small blood                          
                vessels by budding and sprouting from larger, extant vessels . . .”                          




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