JUSTINE WILBUR is a patent lawyer in the firm's Chemical Patent Prosecution group. Prior to joining the firm, she worked as a research scientist for three years at ArQule Inc., where she focused on high throughput synthesis of drug-like molecules using combinatorial chemistry. Ms. Wilbur has experience in patent prosecution, opinion preparation and client counseling in diverse technologies, including cosmetics, light-emitting materials, nanomaterials, ceramics, polymers, alloys, image forming devices, inks, toners, glass products, petrochemical processing, and pharmaceuticals.
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Board rules that a "precise" correlation between structure and function must be established to satisfy written description requirement for nucleic acid claims
Friday, October 07, 2011
One of the rejections at issue in Ex parte Wei and Zhang (Appeal 2010-010989, Application 12/283,347) is a written description rejection under 35 U.S.C. §112, first paragraph. The claims of this application are directed to an isolated nucleic acid and a recombinant host cell. The Examiner concluded that Appellants'...
Ex parte Inosaka and Muraoka
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Ex parte Inosaka and Muraoka (Appeal 2010-006257, Application 11/113,969)
The independent claim at issue in this case is a medical non-crosslinked pressure-sensitive adhesive composition which comprises a particular adhesive polymer A and a particular adhesive polymer B. The examiner rejected this claim as obvious...