The USPTO’s Christine Foster ist still not happy with the triage/trauma NGAL-patent, as the recent development shows.
Triage/Trauma Patent – prosecutions remarks july 2012
While she (CF) seems to acknowledge that the double patenting may be erroneous – she maintains that position until other problems have been solved. On the other hand she maintains that the “new” claim 1 is not applicable as it is differs from what is allowed in finally rejected claims – and secondly that the new claims were not presented earlier. Also Claim 18 seems (to CF) to be contradictionary to claim 1.
So I guess its back to square 1…
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