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                    THIS OPINION WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR PUBLICATION                    
         The opinion in support of the decision being entered today (1)             
         was not written for publication in a law journal and (2) is not            
         binding precedent of the Board.                                            
                                                           Paper No. 94             
                     UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
                                    ____________                                    
                        BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                          
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                  
                                    ____________                                    
                        HEINZ-JÜRGEN FRIESEN, GERD GRENNER,                         
                          HANS ERWIN PAULY, HELMUT KOHL,                            
                                  KLAUS HABENSTEIN                                  
                                  and JOSEPH STÄRK                                  
                                   Junior Party,1                                   
                                         v.                                         
                                  PATRICK E. GUIRE                                  
                               and MELVIN J. SWANSON                                
                                   Senior Party,2                                   
                                    ____________                                    
                          Patent Interference No. 103,072                           
                                  ____________                                      

         Before RONALD H. SMITH, SOFOCLEOUS, Administrative Patent Judges.          
         and McKELVEY, Senior Administrative Patent Judge.                          
         RONALD H. SMITH, Administrative Patent Judge.                              

         Judgment                                                                   
                                                                                   
         1  Patent 4,861,711 issued August 29, 1989, based on                       
         Application 06/808,563, filed December 13, 1995.  Assignor to              
         Behringwerke Aktiengesellschaft, Marburg/Lahn, Germany, A                  
         Corporation of Germany.                                                    
         2  Application 07/891,864 filed June 1, 1992.  Accorded                    
         Benefit of: U.S. Applications 07/574,607, filed August 28, 1990;           
         06/467,229, filed February 23, 1983, now Patent No. 5,073,484,             
         issued December 17, 1991; 06/356,459, filed March 9, 1982.                 
         Assignor to Bio-Metric Systems, Inc., St. Eden Pairie, MN, A               
         Corporation of Minnesota.                                                  
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