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In India, the business of Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi focuses on methods of analyzing cell membranes, method and system for suppressing noise in speech signals in hearing aids and speech transmission instruments, the system of dough processing polymer-metal blend suitable for shape forming, and catalytic decomposition of lower hydrocarbons to produce carbon oxides free hydrogen and bamboo-shaped carbon nanotubes.
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi filed a patent application numbered 1236/DEL/2014 that is titled as A BONSAI FORM OF ARCHEAL L-ASPARAGINASE AND USES THEREOF. The patent has been filed in the field of Micro Biology. This Patent Application has been granted as Patent Number 353743. This invention relates to recombinant enzymes with superior physicochemical properties compared to their wild type counterpart, and methods for producing the same. The disclosure also provides various uses of the enhanced recombinant enzyme.
During the patent examination, the Patent Examiner raised objections under Section 3(d) of the Patents Act, 1970 wherein the subject matter of certain claims disclose a mere practice of known processes/molecules. D1 (US 2013/0330316A1) already discloses the SEQ ID: 3, which is 99.0% similar to SEQ ID: 7 and 100% similar to instant SEQ ID: 8. The cited prior art also discloses the SEQ ID: 8, which is 100% similar to instant SEQ ID: 12 having the same function.
As a response, the Applicant submitted that the Controller has wrongly picked the individual sequences from the pending claims for the BLAST searches. The claimed invention lies in the combination of specific polypeptide sequences conjoined together, which is neither disclosed nor mentioned in the cited Document. Hence, the claimed polypeptides resulting from such a conjoining are novel and inventive.
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