The interference was declared on November 4, 1996,
upon entry of a NOTICE DECLARING INTERFERENCE (Paper No. 1).
Thereafter, on November 6, 1996, an ORDER (Paper No. 2) was
entered suggesting that the Ogata application involved in the
interference may be abandoned. Ogata was given a period of time
to express his views on the issue of abandonment. Ultimately, a
merits panel of the board entered an order holding that the Ogata
application had become abandoned. MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
(Paper No. 25) entered January 22, 1997.
In response to the ORDER, Ogata had filed a petition to
revive the Ogata application contingent on the board concluding
that the application had become abandoned. On January 22, 1997,
an order was entered in the Office of the Assistant Commissioner
for Patents granting Ogata's petition to revive (Paper No. 26).
On January 22, 1997, an ORDER REDECLARING INTERFERENCE
(Paper No. 27) was entered. Pursuant to the ORDER REDECLARING
INTERFERENCE, the interference was declared on the same terms as
those set out in the NOTICE DECLARING INTERFERENCE (Paper No. 1).
A time was set for filing preliminary statements. Manzo,
the junior party, did not file a preliminary statement. Rather,
Manzo filed a COMMUNICATION (Paper No. 38) in which the following
appears:
No responses are being made to any of the
papers that were filed in the above interference,
because it is patentees Manzo et al's position
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