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`IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
`Examiner: S. Kumar
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`Applicant: Harold Kohn
`Serial No.:
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`0 8 / 8 1 8 , 6 8 8
`March 1 7 , 1 9 9 7
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`Art Unit: 1 2 0 9
`Docket:
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`Assistant Commissioner for Patents
`Washington, DC 2 0 2 3 1
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`Sir:
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`This is being submitted to clarify the record
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`regarding art cited in this application.
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`Applicant has reviewed Anderson, et al. JACS 1967.,
`8 9 , 5 0 1 2 - 5 0 1 7 ("Anderson, et al."). Based upon its review, it
`is not apparent to applicant of the relevance of this
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`publication. Applicant can find no specific reference to the
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`basic structure of the present invention where R, or R, are
`hydroxy, as alleged in the Notice of Allowability. Regardless,
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`Anderson, et al. do not contemplate or suggest the claimed
`utility .
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`Furthermore, it should be noted that U.S. Patent Nos.
`5 , 3 7 8 , 7 2 9 and 5 , 6 5 4 , 3 0 1 teach compounds of the formula
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`R 37 G . F . R . S 1 . 8 M
`I hereby certify that this.correspondence is being
`deposited with the Uni,ted States Postal Service as first class
`mail in an envelope addressed to: Assistant Commissioner for
`Patents, Washington, DC 2 0 2 3 1 on April 1 0 , lA98.n
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`Dated: ADril 1 0 , 1 9 9 8
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`IPR2014-01126- Exhibit 1006, p. 1
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`wherein R,or R, is, inter alia.ZY, and Z is, inter alia, 0, and
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`Y is inter alia, hydrogen, lower alkyl, ary1,'aryl lower alkyl,
`lower alkenyl, lower alkykyl, heterocyclic, heterocylic or
`lower lower alkyl.
`Neither reference discloses compounds in the R
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`configuration, having the basic structure wherein at least one
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`claimed.
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`of, R, and R, is specifically alkoxymethyl, as specifically
`Thus, in agreement with the Examiner in the Notice OE
`Allowability, there is no teaching in those references which,
`in the opinion of applicants, would render the claimed
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`invention unpatentable.
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`IPR2014-01126- Exhibit 1006, p. 2