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                       THIS DOCUMENT WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR PUBLICATION                                   
                         AND IS NOT BINDING PRECEDENT OF THE BOARD                                     

                                                                           Paper No. 19                
          Filed by: Trial Section Merits Panel                                                         
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                         UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                     


                             BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                        
                                        AND INTERFERENCES                                              
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                                            NAOTO SANO                                                 
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                                        AKIKAZU TANIMOTO                                               

                                          Senior Party,                                                
                                    (Application 08/956,007)2                                          


                               Patent Interference No. 104,844                                         


          Before LEE, SPIEGEL and GARDNER-LANE, Administrative Patent                                  
          Judges.                                                                                      

          LEE, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                            

                                             JUDGMENT                                                  


                       Based on application 08/280,823, filed July 26, 1994.                           
          The real party in interest is Canon Kabushiki Kaisha.                                        
                 2 Filed October 22, 1997. Accorded the benefit of                                     
          application 08/834,851, filed April 10, 1997; application                                    
          08/409,935, filed March 23, 1995; application 08/256,000, filed                              
          June 8, 1994; and Japanese Patent No. 5-138489, filed June 10,                               
          1993. The real party interest is Nikon Corporation.                                          










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