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`PATENT AND Gf~ OFFICE
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`IN RE APPLICATION OF:
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`YOSHIHIRO FUJIKAWA ET AL
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`SERIAL NO.: 07/233,752
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`FILED: AUGUST 19, 1988
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`FOR: QUINOLINE TYPE MEVA-
`LONOLACTONES
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`GROUP ART UNIT:
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`129
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`EXAMINER:
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`SPRINGER
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`AMENDMENT
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`HONORABLE COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS AND TRADEMARKS
`WASHINGTON, DC 20231
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`SIR:
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`Supplementing
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`the decision finding all claims allowable
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`reflected in the Interview Summary Sheet of August 27, 1990, and
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`pending
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`the Declaration of Interference referred
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`to
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`in
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`the
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`Interview Summary Sheet, applicants respectfully request entry of
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`the following amendment.
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`IN THE CLAIMS:
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`Please cancel Claim 10.
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`REMARKS:
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`Applicants have cancelled Claim 10 of the above-captioned
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`patent application, the subject matter of which is being pursued in
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`a
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`divisional
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`application,
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`filed
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`simultaneously
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`herewith.
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`Applicants have discovered that the subject matter of Claim 10, and
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`related subject matter, exhibits unobvious and distinguishing
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`properties, with respect
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`to
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`the genus circumscribed by
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`the
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`remaining claims of the above-captioned application, as well as the
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`claims of the patent with which an Interference is to be declared.
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`Accordingly, that claim will be pursued in a separate application.
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`Applicants look forward to the Declaration of Interference in
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`the above-captioned application.
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`OBLON, SPIVAK, McCLELLAND,
`MAIER & NEUSTADT, P.C.
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`Norman F. Oblon
`Registration No.: 24,618
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`Steven B. Kelber
`Registration No.: 30,073
`Attorneys of Record
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`Fourth Floor
`1755 South Jefferson
`Arlington, Virginia
`703-521-5940
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`Davis Highway
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