Application of Wesley Gale Irons

ALMOND, Judge.

Wesley Gale Irons appeals from a decision of the Board of Appeals affirming the examiner’s rejection of claims 5 to 17 in his application 1 relating to an antiguanidine polypeptide factor having the formula:

where n is an integer and each R is selected from the group consisting of the hydrogen atom and the monovalent radicals CH2CH2COOH, CH2COOH, CH2CH2CH2NH — C.NH—NH2 and CH2CH2CH2NH2, the values of n and R being such that the molecular weight is between 10,000 and 11,000 * *.

Appellant claims the process for making the polypeptide, the polypeptide product in terms of the process…