MAIL STOP INTERFERENCE Paper149
ALEYANDRIA VA 22313-1450
703-308-9797 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
703-305-0942 (fax) BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES
Interference No. 104,544
TED P. McDONALD -M-A-1 L-E D
(5,593,666),
Junior Party, SEP 2 5 2003
V. PAT &TM OFHCE
BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
HIROSHI MIYAZAKI, AND INTERFERENCES
TAKASHI KATO, KINYA OHGAMI, and AKIHIRO IWAMATSU
(08/278,083, 08/361,811, and 08/964,039),
Senior Party.
HEARD: 28 May 2003
Before LEE, TORCZON, and NAGUMO, Administrative Patent Judcles.
TORCZON, Administrative Patent Judge.
JUDGMENT
(PURSUANT TO 37 CFR § 1.658)
INTRODUCTION
This proceeding relates to compositions and methods for increasing platelet
production, involving fragments of a specific functional sequence of the protein
thrombopoietin (TPO).1
For the final hearing, McDonald has briefed the issues of priority and derivation.
Miyazaki opposes McDonald's brief, but rests its own case for priority on its accorded
1 TPO has several synonyms, including c-myleoproliferative leukemia receptor ligand (c-mpl-L) and
megakaryocyte growth and development factor (MGDF).
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