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                    ORDERED that judgment on priority as to Count 3,                  
          the sole count in the interference, is awarded against junior               
          party BILLIE B. DADGAR, DONALD E. BALHOFF, CHARLES H. KOLICH,               
          MENG-SHENG AO and HOMER C. LIN.                                             
                    FURTHER ORDERED that junior party BILLIE B. DADGAR,               
          DONALD E. BALHOFF, CHARLES H. KOLICH, MENG-SHENG AO and HOMER               
          C. LIN is not entitled to a patent containing claims 19-23                  
          (corresponding to Count 3) of application 08/852,462,                       
                    filed 7 May 1997.  35 U.S.C. § 102(g).                            
                    FURTHER ORDERED that it is the view of senior                     
          party JAMES C. GILL and JAMES L. DEVER, based inter alia on                 
          arguments made in Dadgar Preliminary Motions 1-6 and 8-15,                  
          that           (1) claims 18-21 and 24-41 of Gill application               
                              09/120,518, filed 26 February 1998 (Gill                
                              application),                                           
                    (2) claims 1-8 of Gill U.S. Patent 5,726,252,                     
                         granted 10 March 1998, based on application                  
                         08/796,277, filed 7 February 1997 (Gill patent)              
                         and                                                          
                    (3) claims 1 and 9-16 of Gill reissue application                 
                         09/356,734, filed 19 July 1999 (Gill reissue                 
                         applicaiton) seeking to reissue the Gill patent,             



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