PTO Manual of Classification for US patents

PTO Manual of Classification for US patents

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Class Number: 435
 Class Title: CHEMISTRY: MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND MICROBIOLOGY

Subclass  Subclass
Number    Title

  1       DIFFERENTIATED TISSUE OR ORGAN OTHER THAN BLOOD, PER SE, OR
           DIFFERENTIATED TISSUE OR ORGAN MAINTAINING; COMPOSITIONS
           THEREFOR; APPARATUS THEREFOR
  2       MAINTAINING BLOOD OR SPERM IN A PHYSIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE STATE OR
           COMPOSITIONS THEREOF OR THEREFOR OR METHODS OF IN VITRO BLOOD
           CELL SEPARATION OR TREATMENT
  3       CONDITION RESPONSIVE CONTROL PROCESS
  4       MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESS INVOLVING ENZYMES OR
           MICRO-ORGANISMS; COMPOSITION OR TEST STRIP THEREFORE; PROCESSES
           OF FORMING SUCH COMPOSITION OR TEST STRIP
  5       .Involving virus or bacteriophage
  6       .Involving nucleic acid
  7.1     .Involving antigen-antibody binding, specific binding
            protein assay or specific ligand-receptor binding assay
  7.2     ..Involving a micro-organism or cell membrane bound antigen
             or cell membrane bound receptor or cell membrane bound
             antibody or microbial lysate
  7.21    ...Animal cell
  7.22    ....Parasite or protozoa
  7.23    ....Tumor cell or cancer cell
  7.24    ....Leukocyte (e.g., lymphocyte, granulocyte, monocyte,
               etc.)
  7.25    ....Erythrocyte
  7.3     ...Flagellar-antigen or pili-antigen
  7.31    ...Fungi (e.g., yeast, mold, etc.)
  7.32    ...Bacteria or actinomycetales
  7.33    ....Staphylococcus
  7.34    ....Streptococcus
  7.35    ....Salmonella
  7.36    ....Sexually transmitted disease (e.g., chlamydia,
               syphilis, gonorrhea, etc.)
  7.37    ....Escherichia coli
  7.4     ..To identify an enzyme or isoenzyme
  7.5     ..Involving avidin-biotin binding
  7.6     ..Involving a modified enzyme (e.g., abzyme, recombinant,
             chemically altered, etc.)
  7.7     ..Assay in which a label present is an apoenzyme,
             prosthetic group, or enzyme cofactor
  7.71    ..Assay in which a label present is an enzyme inhibitor or
             functions to alter enzyme activity
  7.72    ..Assay in which a label present is an enzyme substrate or
             substrate analogue
  7.8     ..Involving nonmembrane bound receptor binding or protein
             binding other than antigen-antibody binding
  7.9     ..Assay in which an enzyme present is a label
  7.91    ...Enzyme produces product which is part of another
              reaction system (e.g., cyclic reaction, cascade reaction,
              etc.)
  7.92    ...Heterogeneous or solid phase assay system (e.g., ELISA,
              etc.)
  7.93    ....Competitive assay
  7.94    ....Sandwich assayy
  7.95    ....Indirect assay
  8       .Involving luciferase
  9       .Geomicrobiological testing (e.g., for petroleum, etc.)
  10      .Involving uric acid
  11      .Involving cholesterol
  12      .Involving urea or urease
  13      .Involving blood clotting factor (e.g., involving thrombin,
            thromboplastin, fibrinogen, etc.)
  14      .Involving glucose or galactose
  15      .Involving transferase
  16      ..Involving transaminase
  17      ..Involving creatine phosphokinase
  18      .Involving hydrolase
  19      ..Involving esterase
  20      ...Involving cholinesterase
  21      ...Involving phosphatase
  22      ..Involving amylase
  23      ..Involving proteinase
  24      ..Involving peptidase
  25      .Involving oxidoreductase
  26      ..Involving dehydrogenase
  27      ..Involving catalase
  28      ..Involving peroxidase
  29      .Involving viable micro-organism
  30      ..Methods of sampling or inoculating or spreading a sample;
             methods of physically isolating an intact micro-organism
  31      ..Testing for sterility condition
  32      ..Testing for antimicrobial activity of a material
  33      ...Using multifield media
  34      ..Determining presence or kind of micro-organism; use of
             selective media
  35      ...Using radioactive material
  36      ...Streptococcus; staphylococcus
  37      ...Nitrate to nitrite reducing bacteria
  38      ...Enterobacteria
  39      ...Quantitative determination
  40      ....Using multifield media
  41      MICRO-ORGANISM, TISSUE CELL CULTURE OR ENZYME USING PROCESS TO
           SYNTHESIZE A DESIRED CHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION
  42      .Process involving micro-organisms of different genera in the
            same process, simultaneously
  43      .Preparing compound having a 1-thia-4-aza-bicyclo (3.2.0)
            heptane ring system (e.g., penicillin, etc.)
  44      ..By desacylation of the substituent in 6-position
  45      ..By acylation of the substituent in 6-position
  46      ..In presence of phenyl acetic acid or phenyl acetamide or their
             derivatives
  47      .Preparing compound having a 1-thia-5-aza-bicyclo (4.2.0) octane
            ring system (e.g., cephalosporin, etc.)
  48      ..Di-substituted in 7-position
  49      ..Cephalosporin C
  50      ..By acylation of the substituent in the 7-position
  51      ..By desacylation of the substituent in the 7-position
  52      .Preparing compound containing a cyclopentanohydrophenanthrene
            nucleus; nor-, homo-, or D-ring lactone derivatives thereof
  53      ..Containing heterocyclic ring
  54      ..Acting on D-ring
  55      ...Acting at 17-positionn
  56      ....Hydroxylating at 17-position
  57      ...Hydroxylating at 16-position
  58      ..Hydroxylating
  59      ...At 11-position
  60      ....At 11 alpha position
  61      ..Dehydrogenating; dehydroxylating
  62      ...Forming an aryl ring from "A" ring
  63      .Preparing compound containing a prostaglandin nucleus
  64      .Preparing compound other than saccharide containing a
            tetracycline nucleus (e.g., naphacene, etc.)
  65      .Preparing compound other than saccharide containing a
            gibberellin nucleus (i.e., gibbane)
  66      .Preparing compound other than saccharide containing alloxazine
            or isoalloxazine nucleus
  67      .Preparing compound containing a carotene nucleus (i.e.,
            carotene)
  68.1    .Enzymatic production of a protein or polypeptide (e.g.,
            enzymatic hydrolysis, etc.)
  69.1    .Recombinant DNA technique included in method of making a
            protein or polypeptide
  69.2    ..Enzyme inhibitors or activators
  69.3    ..Antigens
  69.4    ..Hormones and fragments thereof
  69.5    ..Lymphokines or monokines
  69.51   ...Interferons
  69.52   ...Interleukins
  69.6    ..Blood proteins
  69.7    ..Fusion proteins or polypeptides
  69.8    ..Signal sequence (e.g., beta-galactosidase, etc.)
  69.9    ...Yeast derived
  70.1    .Using tissue cell culture to make a protein or
            polypeptide
  70.2    ..Fused or hybrid cells
  70.21   ...Producing monoclonal antibody
  70.3    ..Animal tissue cell culture
  70.4    ...Blood (lymphoid) cell culture
  70.5    ....Producing interferons
  71.1    .Using a micro-organism to make a protein or polypeptide
  71.2    ..Procaryotic micro-organism
  71.3    ...Antibiotic or toxin
  72      .Preparing compound containing saccharide radical
  73      ..Preparing S-glycoside (e.g., lincomycin, etc.)
  74      ..Preparing O-glycoside (e.g., glucosides, etc.)
  75      ...Oxygen of the saccharide radical is directly bonded to a
              nonsaccharide heterocyclic ring or a fused- or bridged-ring
              system which contains a nonsaccharide heterocyclic ring
              (e.g., coumermycin, novobiocin, etc.)
  76      ....The hetero ring has eight or more ring members and only
               oxygen as ring hetero atoms (e.g., erythromycin, spiramycin,
               nystatin, etc.)
  77      ...Oxygen atom of the saccharide radical is directly linked
              through only acyclic carbon atoms to a nonsaccharide
              heterocyclic ring (e.g., bleomycin, phleomycin, etc.)
  78      ...Oxygen atom of the saccharide radical is directly bonded to a
              condensed ring system having three or more carboxyclic rings
              (e.g., dauomycin, adriamycin, etc.)
  79      ...Oxygen atom of the saccharide radical is bonded to a
              cyclohexyl radical (e.g., kasugamycin, etc.))
  80      ....Cyclohexyl radical is substituted by two or more nitrogen
               atoms (e.g., destomycin, neamin, etc.)
  81      .....Cyclohexyl radical is attached directly to a nitrogen atom
                of two or more N-C(=N)-N radicals (e.g., streptomycin,
                etc.)
  82      .....Having two saccharide radicals bonded through only oxygen
                to adjacent ring carbons of the cyclohexyl radical (e.g.,
                ambutyrosin, ribostamycin, etc.)
  83      ......Containing three or more saccharide radicals (e.g.,
                 liquidomycin, neomycin, lividomycin, etc.)
  84      ..Preparing nitrogen-containing saccharide
  85      ...N-glycoside
  86      ....Cobalamin (i.e., vitamin B12, LLD factor)
  87      ....Nucleoside
  88      .....Having a fused ring containing a six-membered ring having
                two N-atoms in the same ring (e.g., purine nucleosides,
                etc.)
  89      ....Nucleotide
  90      .....Dinucleotide (e.g., NAD, etc.)
  91.1    .....Polynucleotide (e.g., nucleic acid, oligonucleotide,
                etc.)
  91.2    ......Acellular exponential or geometric amplification
                 (e.g., PCR, etc.)
  91.21   .......Involving the making of multiple RNA copies
  91.3    ......Polynucleotide contains only ribonucleotide monomers
  91.31   .......Involving catalytic ribonucleic acid
  91.32   .......Prepared from virus, prokaryotic acid
  91.33   ........Involving virus
  91.4    ......Modification or preparation of a recombinant DNA
                 vector
  91.41   .......By insertion or addition of one or more nucleotides
  91.42   .......Involving deletion of a nucleotide or nucleotides
                  from a vector
  91.5    ......Acellular preparation of polynucleotide
  91.51   .......Involving RNA as a starting material or
                  intermediate
  91.52   .......Involving a ligase (6.)
  91.53   .......Involving a hydrolase (3.)
  92      .....Having a fused ring containing a six-membered ring having
                two N-atoms in the same ring (e.g., purine based
                mononucleotides, etc.)
  93      ..Mashing or wort making
  94      ..Produced by the action of an isomerase (e.g., fructose by the
             action of xylose isomerase on glucose, etc.)
  95      ..Produced by the action of a beta-amylase (e.g., maltose by the
             action of beta-amylase on amylose, etc.)
  96      ..Produced by the action of an exo-1.4 alpha glucosidase (e.g.,
             dextrose by the action of glucoamylase on starch, etc.)
  97      ..Produced by the action of a glycosyl transferase (e.g., alpha,
             beta, gamma-cyclodextrins by the action of glycosyl
             transferase on starch, etc.)
  98      ..Produced by the action of an alpha-1, 6-glucosidase (e.g.,
             amylose debranched amylopectin by the action of pullulanase,
             etc.)
  99      ..Produced by the action of a carbohydrase (e.g., maltose by the
             action of alpha amylase on starch, etc.)
  100     ..Disaccharide
  101     ..Polysaccharide of more than five saccharide radicals attachedd
             to each other by glycosidic bonds
  102     ...Pullulan
  103     ...Dextran
  104     ...Xanthan; i.e., xanthomonas-type heteropolysaccharides
  105     ..Monosaccharide
  106     .Preparing alpha or beta amino acid or substituted amino acid or
            salts thereof
  107     ..Proline; hydroxyproline; histidine
  108     ..Tryptophan; tyrosine; phenylalanine; 3,4
             dihydroxyphenylalanine
  109     ..Aspartic acid (asparaginic acid); asparagine
  110     ..Glutamic acid; glutamine
  111     ...Utilizing biotin or its derivatives
  112     ...Utilizing surfactant fatty acids or fatty acid esters (i.e.,
              having seven or more atoms)
  113     ..Methionine; cysteine; cystine
  114     ..Citrulline; arginine; ornithine
  115     ..Lysine; diaminopimelic acid; threonine; valine
  116     ..Alanine; leucine; isoleucine; serine; homoserine
  117     .Preparing heterocyclic carbon compound having only O, N, S, Se,
            or Te as ring hetero atoms
  118     ..Containing two or more hetero rings
  119     ...Containing at least two hetero rings bridged or fused with a
              common carbocyclic ring system (e.g., rifamycin, etc.)
  120     ..Nitrogen or oxygen hetero atom and at least one other diverse
             hetero ring atom in the same ring
  121     ..Nitrogen as only ring hetero atom
  122     ...Containing six-membered hetero ring
  123     ..Oxygen as only ring hetero atom
  124     ...Containing a hetero ring of at least seven ring members
              (e.g., zearalenone, macrocyclic lactones, etc.)
  125     ...Containing six-membered hetero ring (e.g., fluorescein,
              etc.)
  126     ...Containing five-membered hetero ring (e.g., griseofulvin,
              etc.)
  127     .Preparing compound containing at least three carbocyclic rings
  128     .Preparing nitrogen-containing organic compound
  129     ..Amide (e.g., chloramphenicol, etc.)
  130     .Preparing sulfur-containing organic compound
  131     .Preparing organic compound containing a metal or atom other
            than H, N, C, O, or halogen
  132     .Preparing oxygen-containing organic compound
  133     ..Containing quinone nucleus (i.e., quinoid structure)
  134     ..Fat; fatty oil; ester-type wax; higher fatty acid (i.e.,
             having at least seven carbon atoms in an unbroken chain bound
             to a carboxyl group); oxidized oil or fat
  135     ..Carboxylic acid ester
  136     ..Containing a carboxyl group
  137     ...Sugar acid having five or more carbon atoms (i.e., aldonic,
              keto-aldonic, or saccharic acid)
  138     ....Alpha-ketogulonic acid (i.e., 2-ketogulonic acid)
  139     ...Lactic acid
  140     ...Acetic acid
  141     ...Propionic or butyric acid
  142     ...Polycarboxylic acid
  143     ....Having keto group (e.g., alpha-ketoglutaric acid, etc.)
  144     ....Tricarboxylic acid (e.g., citric acid, etc.)
  145     ....Dicarboxylic acid having four or less carbon atoms (e.g.,,
               fumaric, maleic, etc.)
  146     ...Hydroxy carboxylic acid
  147     ..Containing carbonyl group
  148     ...Ketone
  149     ....Cyclopentanone or cyclopentadione containing compound
  150     ....Acetone containing product
  151     .....Substrate contains grain or cereal material
  152     .....Substrate contains protein as nitrogen source
  153     .....Substrate contains inorganic nitrogen source
  154     .....Substrate contains inorganic compound, other than water
  155     ..Containing hydroxy group
  156     ...Aromatic
  157     ...Acyclic
  158     ....Polyhydric
  159     .....Glycerol
  160     ....Butanol
  161     ....Ethanol
  162     .....Multiple stages of fermentation; multiple types of
                micro-organisms or reuse of micro-organisms
  163     .....Produced as by-product, or from waste, or from cellulosic
                material substrate
  164     ......Substrate contains sulphite waste liquor or citrus waste
  165     ......Substrate contains cellulosic material
  166     .Preparing hydrocarbon
  167     ..Only acyclic
  168     .Preparing element or inorganic compound except carbon dioxide
  169     .Using actinomycetales
  170     .Using bacteria
  171     .Using fungi
  172.1   MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING
  172.2   .Fused or hybrid cell formation
  172.3   .Recombination
  173.1   TREATMENT OF MICRO-ORGANISMS OR ENZYMES WITH ELECTRICAL OR
           WAVE ENERGY (E.G., MAGNETISM, SONIC WAVES, ETC.)
  173.2   .Enzyme treated
  173.3   .Modification of viruses (e.g., attenuation, etc.)
  173.4   .Cell membrane or cell surface is target
  173.5   ..Membrane permeability increased
  173.6   ...Electroporation
  173.7   ..Lytic effect produced (e.g., disruption of cell membrane
             for release of subcellular parts; e.g., nucleic acids, etc.)
  173.8   .Metabolism of micro-organism enhanced (e.g., growth
            enhancement or increased production of microbial product)
  173.9   .Concentration, separation, or purification of
            micro-organisms
  174     CARRIER-BOUND OR IMMOBILIZED ENZYME OR MICROBIAL CELL;
           CARRIER-BOUND OR IMMOBILIZED CELL; PREPARATION THEREOF
  175     .Multi-enzyme system
  176     .Enzyme or microbial cell is immobilized on or in an inorganic
            carrier
  177     .Enzyme or microbial cell is immobilized on or in an organic
            carrier
  178     ..Carrier is carbohydrate
  179     ...Carbohydrate is cellulose or derivative thereof
  180     ..Carrier is synthetic polymer
  181     ...Attached to the carrier via a bridging agent
  182     ...Enzyme or microbial cell is entrapped within the carrier
              (e.g., gel, hollow fibre))
  183     ENZYME (E.G., LIGASES (6. ), ETC.), PROENZYME; COMPOSITIONS
           THEREOF; PROCESS FOR PREPARING, ACTIVATING, INHIBITING,
           SEPARATING, OR PURIFYING ENZYMES
  184     .Enzyme inactivation by chemical treatment
  185     .Malt
  186     .Pancreatin
  187     .Preparing granular- or free-flowing enzyme composition
  188     .Stablizing an enzyme by forming a mixture, an adduct or a
            composition, or formation of an adduct or enzyme conjugate
  188.5   .Catalytic antibody
  189     .Oxidoreductase (1. ) (e.g., luciferase)
  190     ..Acting on CHOH group as donor (e.g., glucose oxidase, lactate
             dehydrogenase (1.1))
  191     ..Acting on nitrogen-containing compound as donor (1.2, 1.5,
             1.7)
  192     ..Acting on hydrogen peroxide as acceptor (1.11)
  193     .Transferase other than ribonuclease (2.)
  194     ..Transferring phosphorus containing group (e.g., kineases,
             etc.(2.7))
  195     .Hydrolase (3. )
  196     ..Acting on ester bond (3.1)
  197     ...Carboxylic ester hydrolase (3.1.1)
  198     ....Triglyceride splitting (e.g., lipase, etc. (3.1.1.3))
  199     ...Ribonuclease (3.1.4)
  200     ..Acting on glycosyl compound (3.2)
  201     ...Acting on alpha-1, 4-glucosidic bond, (e.g., hyaluronidase,
              invertase, amylase, etc. (some 3.2.1))
  202     ....Alpha-amylase, microbial source
  203     .....Fungal source
  204     ....Alpha-amylase, plant source (3.2.1.1)
  205     ....Glucoamylase (3.2.1.3)
  206     ...Acting on beta-1, 4 link between N-acetylmuramic acid and
              2-acetylamino 2 deoxy-D-glucose (e.g., lysozyme, etc.)
  207     ...Acting on beta-galatose-glycoside bond (e.g.,
              beta-galactosidase, etc.)
  208     ...Acting on alpha-galatose-glycoside bond (e.g.,
              alpha-galactosidase, etc.)
  209     ...Acting on beta-1, 4-glucosidic bond (e.g., cellulase, etc.
              (3.2.1.4))
  210     ...Acting on alpha-1, 6-glucosidic bond (e.g., isoamylase,
              pullulanase, etc.)
  211     ....Dextranase (3.2.1.11)
  212     ..Acting on peptide bond (e.g., thromboplastin, leucine
             amino-peptidase, etc., (3.4))
  213     ...Trypsin; chymotrypsin
  214     ...Thrombin
  215     ...Urokinase
  216     ...Streptokinase
  217     ...Plasmin (i.e., fibrinolysin)
  218     ...Elastase
  219     ...Proteinase
  220     ....Derived from bacteria
  221     .....Bacteria is bacillus
  222     ......Bacillus subtilus or bacillus lichenoformis
  223     ....Derived from fungi
  224     .....From yeast
  225     .....From aspergillus
  226     ....Derived from animal tissue (e.g., rennin, etc.))
  227     ..Acting on carbon to nitrogen bond other than peptide bond
             (3.5)
  228     ...Acting on a linear amide linkage in linear amide
  229     ....Asparaginase
  230     ....Penicillin amidase
  231     ...Acting on amide linkage in cyclic amides (e.g.,
              penicillinase, etc.) (3.5.2)
  232     .Lyase (4. )
  233     .Isomerase (5. )
  234     ..Glucose isomerase
  235.1   VIRUS OR BACTERIOPHAGE, EXCEPT FOR VIRAL VECTOR OR
           BACTERIOPHAGE VECTOR; COMPOSITION THEREOF; PREPARATION OR
           PURIFICATION THEREOF; PRODUCTION OF VIRAL SUBUNITS; MEDIA FOR
           PROPAGATING
  236     .Inactivation or attenuation; producing viral subunits
  237     ..By serial passage of virus
  238     ..By chemical treatment
  239     .Recovery or purification
  240.1   ANIMAL OR PLANT CELL (E.G., CELL LINES, TISSUES);
           CULTIVATION OR MAINTENANCE THEREOF; MEDIA THEREFORE
  240.2   .Animal cells, per se, culture techniques and media
  240.21  ..Techniques of establishing a primary culture
  240.22  ..Culture of encapsulated cells
  240.23  ..Culture of cells on solid support (e.g., anchorage
             dependent cells)
  240.24  ...Support is suspendable particle
  240.241 ...Culture of cells on membrane
  240.242 ....Hollow fibre membrane
  240.243 ...Solid support treated or coated to enhance attachment or
              growth
  240.25  ..Culture in suspension
  240.26  ..Fused or hybrid cells
  240.27  ...Ab or Ig fragments producing cells
  240.3   ..Culture medium, per se
  240.31  ...Defined medium
  240.4   .Plant cells, per se, culture techniques and media
  240.45  ..Culture techniques (e.g., meristem culture, etc.)
  240.46  ...Culture in suspension
  240.47  ....Protoplasts
  240.48  ...Callus culture
  240.49  ....Regeneration (includes nonflowering ornamentals)
  240.5   .....Agronomic crops (e.g., tobacco, grains, etc.)
  240.51  .....Fruit and vegetable crops (e.g., tomato, etc.)
  240.54  ..Culture medium, per se, or regeneration medium, per se
  242     SPORE FORMING OR ISOLATING PROCESS
  243     MICRO-ORGANISM, PER SE (E.G., PROTOZOA, ETC.); COMPOSITIONS
           THEREOF; PROCES OF PROPAGATING, MAINTAINING OR PRESERVING
           MICRO-ORGANISMS OR COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; PROCESS OF PREPARING OR
           ISOLATING A COMPOSITION CONTAINING A MICRO-ORGANISM; CULTURE
           MEDIA THEREFOR
  244     .Chemical stimulation of growth or activity by addition of
            chemical compound which is not an essential growth factor;
            stimulation of growth by removal of a chemical compound
  245     .Adaptation or attenuation of cells
  246     .Foam culture
  247     .Utilizing media containing lower alkanol (i.e., having one to
            six carbon atoms)
  248     .Utilizing media containing hydrocarbonn
  249     ..Aliphatic
  250     ...Having five or less carbon atoms
  251     .Utilizing media containing waste sulphite liquor
  252     .Utilizing media containing cellulose or hydrolysates thereof
  252.1   .Bacteria or actinomycetales; media therefor
  252.2   ..Rhizobium or agrobacterium
  252.3   ..Transformants (e.g., recombinant DNA or vector or foreign
             or exogenous gene containing, fused bacteria, etc.)
  252.31  ...Bacillus (e.g., B. subtilis, B. thuringiensis, etc.)
  252.32  ...Brevibacterium or corynebacterium
  252.33  ...Escherichia (e.g., E. coli, etc.)
  252.34  ...Pseudomonas
  252.35  ...Streptomyces
  252.4   ..Mixed culture
  252.5   ..Bacillus (e.g., B. subtilis, B. thuringiensis, etc.)
  252.6   ..Actinoplanes
  252.7   ..Clostridium
  252.8   ..Escherichia (e.g., E. coli, etc.) or salmonella
  252.9   ..Lactobacillus, pediococcus, or leuconostoc
  253.1   ..Mycobacterium
  253.2   ..Nocardia
  253.3   ..Pseudomonas
  253.4   ..Streptococcus
  253.5   ..Streptomyces
  253.6   ..Culture media, per se
  254.1   .Fungi
  254.11  ..Transformants
  254.2   ...Yeast; media therefor
  254.21  ....Saccharomyces
  254.22  ....Candida
  254.23  ....Pichia
  254.3   ...Aspergillus
  254.4   ...Neurospora
  254.5   ...Penicillium
  254.6   ...Trichoderma
  254.7   ...Fusarium
  254.8   ...Mucor
  254.9   ...Rhizopus
  255.1   ..Yeast
  255.2   ...Saccharomyces
  255.21  ....Culture media, per se, or technique
  255.3   ...Cryptococcus
  255.4   ...Candida or torulopsis
  255.5   ...Pichia
  255.6   ...Hansenula
  255.7   ...Culture media, per se, or technique
  256.1   ..Aspergillus
  256.2   ..Mucor
  256.3   ..Penicillium
  256.4   ..Cephalosporium or acremonium
  256.5   ..Fusarium
  256.6   ..Rhizopus
  256.7   ..Trichoderma
  256.8   ..Culture media, per se, or technique
  257.1   .Algae, media therefor
  257.2   ..Transformants
  257.3   ..Chlorella
  257.4   ..Euglenaa
  257.5   ..Scenedesmus
  257.6   ..Chlamydomonas
  258.1   .Protozoa, media therefor
  258.2   ..Plasmodium
  258.3   ..Leishmania
  258.4   ..Eimeria
  259     .Lysis of micro-organism
  260     .Preserving or maintaining micro-organism
  261     .Separation of micro-organism from culture media
  320.1   VECTOR, PER SE (E.G., PLASMID, HYBRID PLASMID, COSMID,
           VIRAL VECTOR, BACTERIOPHAGE VECTOR, ETC.) BACTERIOPHAGE VECTOR,
           ETC.)
  262     PROCESS OF UTILIZING AN ENZYME OR MICRO-ORGANISM TO DESTROY
           HAZARDOUS OR TOXIC WASTE, LIBERATE, SEPARATE, OR PURIFY A
           PREEXISTING COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION THEREFORE; CLEANING OBJECTS
           OR TEXTILES
  262.5   .Destruction of hazardous or toxic waste
  263     .Textile treating
  264     .Cleaning using a micro-organism or enzyme
  265     .Depilating hides, bating, or hide treating using enzyme or
            micro-organism
  266     .Treating gas, emulsion, or foam
  267     .Treating animal or plant material or micro-organism
  268     ..Treating organ or animal secretion
  269     ..Treating blood fraction
  270     ..Removing nucleic acid from intact or disrupted cell
  271     ..Glyceridic oil, fat, ester-type wax, or higher fatty acid
             recovered or purified
  272     ..Proteinaceous material recovered or purified
  273     ...Collagen or gelatin
  274     ..Carbohydrate material recovered or purified
  275     ...Pectin or starch
  276     ...Sugar (e.g., molasses treatment, etc.)
  277     ...Cellulose (e.g., plant fibers, etc.)
  278     ....Producing paper pulp
  279     ....Hemp or flax treating
  280     .Resolution of optical isomers or purification of organic
            compounds or composition containing same
  281     .Petroleum oil or shale oil treating
  282     ..Desulfurizing
  283     ORGAN PERFUSION APPARATUS
  284     TISSUE, ANIMAL OR PLANT CELL, OR VIRUS CULTURE APPARATUS
  285     .With means providing thin layers
  286     .With means providing suspensions
  287     APPARATUS
  288     .For use of free or immobilized enzyme
  289     .Including condition or time responsive control
  290     ..Temperature responsive control
  291     .Including measuring or testing with condition sensing or
            measuring means
  292     .Inoculator streaker or sampler
  293     ..Multifield or continuous
  294     ..Sampler or inoculator is part of container
  295     ...Sampler or inoculator is swab
  296     .Tube or bottle
  297     .Petri dish
  298     ..Including cover seal
  299     .Containing or adapted to contain solid mediaa
  300     ..Multiple field or compartment
  301     ...Horizontal, planar field
  302     .Malting or mashing apparatus
  303     ..Rotary drum
  304     ..Cascade or vertically spaced stages
  305     ..With agitator or mash turner
  306     ...With horizontal axis of rotation
  307     ...With vertical axis of rotation
  308     ....Rakes
  309     ..With multilevel gas introduction means
  310     .With means providing thin layer or with multilevel trays
  311     .With sterilizer or filtration means
  312     .Rotatably mounted
  313     .With gas introduction means
  314     ..With draft tube
  315     ..With agitator
  316     .With agitator or heat exchanger
  317.1   MISCELLANEOUS (E.G., SUBCELLULAR PARTS OF MICRO-ORGANISMS,
           ETC.)
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  800     ELIMINATION OR REDUCTION OF CONTAMINATION BY UNDERSIRED FERMENTS
           (E.G., ASEPTIC CULTIVATION)
  801     ANEROBIC CULTIVATION
  802     LOGARITHMIC GROWTH PHASE
  803     PHYSICAL RECOVERY METHODS (E.G., CHROMATOGRAPHY, GRINDING)
  804     SINGLE CELL PROTEIN
  805     TEST PAPERS
  806     FERTILITY TESTS
  807     GAS DETECTION APPARATUS
  808     OPTICAL SENSING APPARATUS
  809     INCUBATORS OR RACKS OR HOLDERS FOR CULTURE PLATES OR CONTAINERS
  810     PACKAGED DEVICE OR KIT
  811     INTERFERON
  812     FOAM CONTROL
  813     CONTINUOUS FERMENTATION
  814     ENZYME SEPARATION OR PURIFICATION
  815     .By sorption
  816     .By solubility
  817     ENZYME OR MICROBE ELECTRODE
  818     AERATION OR OXYGEN TRANSFER TECHNIQUE
  819     FERMENTATION VESSELS IN SERIES
  820     SUBCELLULAR PARTS OF MICRO-ORGANISMS
  821     MICRO-ORGANISMS USED IN THE DESTRUCTION OF HAZARDOUS OR TOXIC
           WASTE
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  822     .Using bacteria or actinomycetales
  823     ..Acetobacter
  824     ..Achromobacter
  825     ..Actinomadura
  826     ..Actinomyces
  827     ..Actinoplanes
  828     ..Aerobacter
  829     ..Alcaligenes
  830     ..Arthrobacterr
  831     ..Azotobacter
  832     ..Bacillus
  833     ...Bacillus brevis
  834     ...Bacillus cereus
  835     ...Bacillus circulans
  836     ...Bacillus licheniformis
  837     ...Bacillus megaterium
  838     ...Bacillus polymyxa
  839     ...Bacillus subtilis
  840     ..Brevibacterium
  841     ..Chainia
  842     ..Clostridium
  843     ..Corynebacterium
  844     ...Corynebacterium diphtheriae
  845     ...Corynebacterium poinsettiae
  846     ...Corynebacterium pyogenes
  847     ..Erwinia
  848     ..Escherichia
  849     ...Escherichia coli
  850     ..Flavobacterium
  851     ..Haemophilus
  852     ..Klebsiella
  853     ..Lactobacillus
  854     ...Lactobacillus acidophilus
  855     ...Lactobacillus brevis
  856     ...Lactobacillus casei
  857     ...Lactobacillus plantarum
  858     ..Methylomonas
  859     ..Micrococcus
  860     ...Micrococcus flavus
  861     ...Micrococcus glutamicus
  862     ...Micrococcus lysodeikticus
  863     ..Mycobacterium
  864     ...Mycobacterium avium
  865     ...Mycobacterium fortuitum
  866     ...Mycobacterium smegmatis
  867     ..Micromonospora
  868     ...Micromonospora chalcea
  869     ...Micromonospora purpurea
  870     ..Mycoplasma
  871     ..Neisseria
  872     ..Nocardia
  873     ..Proteus
  874     ..Pseudomonas
  875     ...Pseudomonas aeruginosa
  876     ...Pseudomonas fluorescens
  877     ...Pseudomonas putida
  878     ..Rhizobium
  879     ..Salmonella
  880     ..Serratia
  881     ...Serratia marcescens
  882     ..Staphylococcus
  883     ...Staphylococcus aureus
  884     ...Staphylococcus epidermidis
  885     ..Streptococcus
  886     ..Streptomyces
  887     ...Streptomyces albus
  888     ...Streptomyces antibioticuss
  889     ...Streptomyces aureofaciens
  890     ...Streptomyces aureus
  891     ...Streptomyces bikiniensia
  892     ...Streptomyces candidus
  893     ...Streptomyces chartreusis
  894     ...Streptomyces diastatochromogenes
  895     ...Streptomyces filipinensis
  896     ...Streptomyces fradiae
  897     ...Streptomyces griseus
  898     ...Streptomyces hygroscopicus
  899     ...Streptomyces lavendulae
  900     ...Streptomyces lincolnensis
  901     ...Streptomyces noursei
  902     ...Streptomyces olivaceus
  903     ...Streptomyces platensis
  904     ...Streptomyces rimosus
  905     ...Streptomyces sparogenes
  906     ...Streptomyces venezuelae
  907     ..Streptosporangium
  908     ..Streptovirticillium
  909     ..Vibrio
  910     ..Xanthomonas
  911     .Using fungi
  912     ..Absidia
  913     ..Aspergillus
  914     ...Aspergillus awamori
  915     ...Aspergillus flavus
  916     ...Aspergillus fumigatus
  917     ...Aspergillus niger
  918     ...Aspergillus oryzae
  919     ...Aspergillus ustus
  920     ...Aspergillus wenti
  921     ..Candida
  922     ...Candida albicans
  923     ...Candida lipolytica
  924     ...Candida tropicalis
  925     ..Cephalosporium
  926     ...Cephalosporium acremonium
  927     ...Cephalosporium caerulens
  928     ...Cephalosporium crotocinigenium
  929     ..Fusarium
  930     ..Hansenula
  931     ..Mucor
  932     ..Paecilomyces
  933     ..Penicillium
  934     ...Penicillium brevi
  935     ...Penicillium chrysogenum
  936     ...Penicillium notatium
  937     ...Penicillium patulum
  938     ..Pichia
  939     ..Rhizopus
  940     ..Saccharomyces
  941     ...Saccharomyces carlsbergensis
  942     ...Saccharomyces cerevisiae
  943     ...Saccharomyces lactis
  944     ..Torulopsis
  945     ..Trichoderma
  946     .Using algaee
  947     .Using protozoa
  948     .Using viruses or cell lines
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  *       RELATED TO SUBCLASSES
  *       7.1 THROUGH 7.95
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  960     IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL ASSAY
  961     INCLUDING A STEP OF FORMING, RELEASING, OR EXPOSING THE ANTIGEN
           OR FORMING THE HAPTEN-IMMUNOGENIC CARRIER COMPLEX OR THE
           ANTIGEN, PER SE
  962     PREVENTION OR REMOVAL OF INTERFERING MATERIALS OR REACTANTS OR
           OTHER TREATMENT TO ENHANCE RESULTS (E.G., DETERMINING OR
           PREVENTING NONSPECIFIC BINDING, ETC.)
  963     METHODS OF STOPPING AN ENZYME REACTION OR STABILIZING THE TEST
           MATERIALS
  964     INCLUDING ENZYME-LIGAND CONJUGATE PRODUCTION (E.G., REDUCING
           RATE OF NONPRODUCTIVE LINKAGE, ETC.)
  965     INVOLVING IDIOTYPE OR ANTI-IDIOTYPE ANTIBODY
  966     INVOLVING AN ENZYME SYSTEM WITH HIGH TURNOVER RATE OR COMPLEMENT
           MAGNIFIED ASSAY (E.G., MULTI-ENZYME SYSTEMS, ETC.)
  967     STANDARDS, CONTROLS, MATERIALS (E.G., VALIDATION STUDIES, BUFFER
           SYSTEMS, ETC.)
  968     HIGH ENERGY SUBSTRATES (E.G., FLUORESCENT, CHEMILUMINESCENT,
           RADIOACTIVE, ETC.)
  969     MULTIPLE LAYERING OF REACTANTS
  970     TEST STRIP OR TEST SLIDE
  971     CAPTURE OF COMPLEX AFTER ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY REACTION
  972     MODIFIED ANTIBODY (E.G., HYBRID, BIFUNCTIONAL, ETC.)
  973     SIMULTANEOUS DETERMINATION OF MORE THAN ONE ANALYTE
  974     AIDS RELATED TEST
  975     KIT