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          The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was                  
          not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the                 
          Board.                                                                          


                                                               Paper No. 50               


                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                           

           MAILED                                                                         
                          =ORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                
          MAY 13 2003 AND INTERFERENCES                                                   

           PAT. & TM. OFFICE                                                              
        BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS 'HOMAS D. GUY and ALEX IANNIRUBERTO                       
          AND INTERFERENCES                                                               
                                     Junior Party,'                                       
                                           V.                                             
                          RANDY R. STEPHENS, JOHN M. COLLINS,                             
                             ROBERT FARRA and DEAN PICHON                                 
                                     Senior Party .2                                      

                            Patent Interference No. 104,085                               


          Before METZ, PATE and MARTIN, Administrative Patent Judges.                     
          PATE, Administrative Patent Judge.                                              




               'U.S. Patent No. 5,334,164, granted August 2, 1994, based on               
          Application 07/816,215, filed January 3, 1992. Assignee to                      
          United States Surgical Corp., Norwalk, CT.                                      
               2 Application No. 08/311,147, filed September 23, 1994.                    
          Accorded benefit of Application No. 08/000,108, filed January 4,                
          1993, now U.S. Patent No. 5,350,364, granted September 21, 1994;                
          and Application No. 07/781,026, filed October 18, 1991, now U.S.                
          Patent No. 5,197,955, granted March 30, 1993.                                   
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