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                                             The opinion in support of the decision being entered                                                           
                                                   today is not binding precedent of the Board                                                              

                  Filed by: Trial Section Merits Panel Paper No. 23                                                                                         
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                                        UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                                           


                                               BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                                           
                                                              AND INTERFERENCES                                                                             
                                                                                                                      FAXED                                 

                                                        OSIRIS THERAPEUTICS, INC OR 2 2 2004                                                                
                                                                      Junior Party,                                                                         
                                                                  (Patent 6,030,836), PAT. &                               .TM. OFFICE                      
                                                                                                                aOARI) OF PATENT APPEALS                    
                                                                             V. ANo INTFRFEItENCES                                                          

                                                CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY                                                                             
                                                                      Senior Party,                                                                         
                                                              (Application 09/321,655).                                                                     


                                                          Patent Interference No. 105,197                                                                   


                  Before LANE, MEDLEY, and TIERNEY Administrative Patent Judges.                                                                            

                  MEDLEY, Administrative Patent Judiz .                                                                                                     

                                              JUDGMENT -- NO INTERFERENCE-IN-FACT                                                                           

                           Upon consideration of the record, it is                                                                                          

                           ORDERED that in view of the three-judge merits panel decision (Paper 22) that there is                                           

                  no interference-in-fact, final judgment is entered that there is no interference-in-fact between (1)                                      

                  Osiris Therapeutics, Inc. claims 1-3, 8, 12 and 13, and (2) Case Western Reserve University                                               

                  claims 2-5;                                                                                                                               








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