Legal Opinion
In Re Stephen E. Wright
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided July 20, 1993No. 92-1437PublishedCited by 79 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RICH, Circuit Judge.
Dr. Stephen E. Wright appeals from the January 16, 1992 decision of the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (Board) of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) sustaining the Examiner’s rejection of claims 1-23, 15-42, and 45-48 of application Serial No. 067914,620 1 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, as unsupported by an enabling disclosure. 2 We affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
A. The Invention
The claims on appeal are directed to processes for producing live, non-pathogenic vaccines against pathogenic RNA viruses (claims 1-10, 22-37, 40, 45, and 46), vaccines…
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