PATENT
`Attorney Docket No.: AKBM-14409/US-18/CON
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`REMARKS
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`Claims 1-4, 6, 10-15, 17, 18 and 20 are pending and under examination following entry
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`of this amendment. Claims5, 8, 9 and 19 have been cancelled without prejudice. Claims 1 and
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`14 have been amended. Support may be foundin the claims asoriginally filed and in the
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`summary of the invention. No new matter has been added. All amendments and cancellation of
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`claims are made without acquiescing to any of the Examiner's arguments or rejections, and solely
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`for the purpose of expediting the patent application process and without waivingthe right to
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`prosecute the cancelled claims (or similar claims) in the future. The issues and rejections
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`identified in the office action are addressed in order below.
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`Claims 1-6, 8-15 and 17-20 are rejected under 35 USC 103(a) as being obvious overthe
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`combination of Sampalis, US 4133077, Fricke et al., and US Pat. Publ. 2006/0177486.
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`Applicants respectfully submit that the claim amendments address the rejection. In particular,
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`there is no teaching or suggestion in the combined references that a krill oil containing the
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`specified levels of total phospholipids, ether phospholipids, triglycerides and astaxanthin esters
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`can be obtained from a krill meal that has been stored from 1 to 36 months as claimed.
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`Moreover, as detailed in the specification, the ability to obtain a krill oil from the stored krill
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`meal that does not degradation products is an unexpected result and provides commercial
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`efficiencies that could not have been predicted from the priorart.
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`In summary, Applicant respectfully submits that there is no primafacie case of
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`obviousness because the cited references do not provide each element of the claims and because
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`the high quality krill oil obtained from the process is unexpectedresult.
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`CONCLUSION
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`If a telephone interview would aid in the prosecution of this application, the Examiner is
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`encouragedto call the undersigned collect at (608) 662-1277.
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`Dated:
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`June 10, 2019
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`/J. Mitchell Jones/
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`John Mitchell Jones
`Registration No. 44,174
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`PATENT
`Attorney Docket No.: AKBM-14409/US-18/CON
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`Casimir Jones, S.C.
`2275 Deming Way,Suite 310
`Middleton, WI, 53562
`(608) 662-1277
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