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By Donald Zuhn — In an appeal from a decision of the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, the Federal Circuit affirmed the rejection of claims directed to isolated DNA molecules encoding TNF binding protein II (TBP-II) under the written description requirement of 35 U.S.C. § 112. Appellants had purified TBP-II from urine…