INTERNATIONAL SEARCH REPORT International application No. PCT/DK 00/00148 C (Continuation). DOCUMENTS CONSIDERED TO BE RELEVANT Category* Citation of document, with indication, where appropriate, of the relevant passages Relevant to claim No. X WO 9100353 A2 (GIST-BROCADES N. V.), 1,13-20,25 10 January 1991 (10.01.91), see page 12 and claims INTERNATIONAL SEARCH REPORT Motional application ! PCT/DK00/00148 Box I Observations where certain claims were found unsearchable (Continuation of item 1 of first sheet) This international search report has not been established in respect of certain claims under Article 17 (2Xa) for the following reasons: 1.2 Claims Nos.: because they relate to subject matter not required to be searched by this Authority, namely: Claims Nos. : 7 because they relate to parts of the international application that do not comply with the prescribed requirements to such an extent that no meaningful international search can be carried out, specifically: see extra * 3.2 Claims Nos.: because they are dependent claims and are not drafted in accordance with the second and third sentences of Rule 6.4 (a). Box II Observations where unity of invention is lacking (Continuation of item 2 of first sheet) c see extra sheet ** ThisInternational Searching Authority found multiple inventions in this international application, as follows : see extra sheet ** 1. ! ! As all required additional search fees were timely paid by the applicant, this international search report covers all searchable claims. 2. ! As all searchable claims could be searched without effort justifying an additional fee, this Authority did not invite payment of any additional fee. 3. z As only some of the required additional search fees were timely paid by the applicant, this international search report covers only those claims for which fees were paid, specifically claims Nos.: 1-23, 25, all partially. See also Box 1. 2 4.2 No required additional search fees were timely paid by the applicant. Consequently, this international search report is restricted to the invention first mentioned in the claims; it is covered by claims Nos.: Remark on Protest The additional search fees were accompanied by the applicant's protest. Nô No protest accompanied the payment of additional search fees. INTERNATIONAL SEARCH REPORT Inttiaational application No. PCT/DK00/00148 Box 1. 2 * In response to the invitation to pay additional fees, the applicant has requested the search to be performed on the basis of claim 7. The enzymes according to this claim are characterized by two features: i) they comprise at least one of the mutations mentioned in claim 1, and ii) they have a reduced capability of cleaving an oligosaccharide substrate close to the branching point. It is not possible to make an exhaustive search on feature ii) since this feature may well be present in previously described mutated amylases without being expressly mentioned. Feature i) does not serve to limit the scope of the search since the numbering of amino acids (and therefore also mutations) differ in the prior art. Due to the very extensive litterature on mutated amylases it is not possible to translate every mutation to the numbering used in the present application. Consequently, the search has been limited to amylases described using the same numbering of amino acids (and hence also mutations) and with either expressly mentioned reduced capability of cleaving the substrate close to a branching point or a specified mutation in position 13 (see also Box II). Box 11 The application relates to 561 Inventions. Invention 1 to 560: Claim 1 describes mutations at 14 different positions of alpha-amalyse. Each mutation can be an insertion of an amino acid at the downstream position (20 possibilities), a deletion (1 possibility) or an amino acid exchange (19 possibilities), i. e. there are 40 possibilities in each of the 14 positions resulting in 560 possible mutations. invention561: Claim 24 relates to a method for producing mutated alpha-amylase. S/74931 INTERNATIONAL SEARCH REPORT International application No. Information on patent family 04/12/00 PCT/DK 00/00148 04/12/00 PCT/DK 00/00148 Patent document Publication Patent family Publication cited in search report date member (s) date WO 9100353 A2 10/01/91 AT 166922 T 15/06/98 AU 638263 B 24/06/93 AU 5953890 A 17/01/91 BG 61081 B 31/10/96 BR 9006818 A 06/08/91 CA 2030554 A 30/12/90 CN 1050220 A 27/03/91 DD 301620 A 29/04/93 DE 69032360 D, T 03/12/98 DK 410498 T 22/03/99 EP 0410498 A, B 30/01/91 ES 2117625 T 16/08/98 FI 103285 B 00/00/00 FI 910907 D 00/00/00 JP 3086249 B 11/09/00 JP 4500756 T 13/02/92 KR 165550 B 15/01/99 PT 94560 A, B 08/02/91 US 5364782 A 15/11/94