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                             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                                      is not binding precedent of the Board.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 ROBERTO CREA                                                
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                                             Appeal 2007-2400                                                
                                          Application 10/418,182                                             
                                          Technology Center 1600                                             
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                                       Decided: September 21, 2007                                           
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                Before ERIC GRIMES, LORA M. GREEN, and RICHARD M.                                            
                LEBOVITZ, Administrative Patent Judges.                                                      
                GRIMES, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                         


                                         DECISION ON APPEAL                                                  
                      This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 involving claims to a library                  
                of mutant immunoglobulins.  The Examiner has rejected the claims for                         
                obviousness and obviousness-type double patenting.  We have jurisdiction                     
                under 35 U.S.C. § 6(b).  We affirm.                                                          
                                             BACKGROUND                                                      
                      Antibodies, or immunoglobulins, include a heavy chain and a light                      
                chain, each of which has a constant region and variable region (Specification                




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