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`Inventors: OKSCHE ef al.
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`Confirmation No.: 7842
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`Applicant: Rhodes Pharmaceuticals L.P.
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`Art Unit: 1611
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`Application No.: 15/998,868
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`Examiner: RICCI, Craig D.
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`Filing Date: August 17, 2018
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`Atty. Docket: 1861.2700007/JMC/MSB
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`Title: Buprenorphine-waferfor drug substitution therapy
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`Response to Election of Species Requirement
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`Mail Stop Amendment
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`Commissionerfor Patents
`PO Box 1450
`Alexandria, VA 22313-1450
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`Commissioner:
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`This paper is being filed in response to the Species Election Requirement mailed on
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`October 18, 2019. Appropriate fees are believed to be included with this response, but if any
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`further fees are due, the USPTO is hereby authorized to charge any such fees to deposit
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`account 19-0036.
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`Remarksbegin on page2.
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`OKSCHE et al.
`Application No. 15/998,868
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`Remarks
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`In the species election requirement mailed October 18, 2019, the Examiner indicated
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`that Applicant was required to elect species as follows:
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`1) asingle non-gelatin polymeric film-forming material (HPMC, HPC,etc);and
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`2) any additional components (e.g., NONE, the pH modifiercitric acid, sodium
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`dihydrogen, the flavor orange flavor,etc).
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`In response, Applicant elects carboxymethylcellulose (CMC)as the “at least one non-gelatin
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`film-forming material”, citric acid as the “pH modifier”, and disoditumhydrogen phosphate as
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`an additional agent recited in claim 11. Claims reading on the elected species include claims
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`1-14. These elections are made withouttraverse.
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`Atty. Dkt. No. 1861.2700007/JMC/MSB
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`OKSCHE et al.
`Application No. 15/998,868
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`Conclusion
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`The pending application is believed to be in condition for allowance. Prompt and
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`favorable consideration is respectfully requested. If the Office believes, for any reason, that
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`personal communication will expedite prosecution of this application, the Office is invited to
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`telephone the undersigned at the number provided.
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`STERNE, KESSLER, GOLDSTEIN & FOX P.L.L.C.
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`/Matthew S. Bodenstein/
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`Matthew S. Bodenstein
`Attorney for Applicant
`Registration No. 58,885
`Date:__March 24, 2020
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`1100 New York Avenue, N.W.
`Washington, D.C. 20005-3934
`(202) 371-2600
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`14318141 1
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`Atty. Dkt. No. 1861.2700007/JMC/MSB
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