Interference No. 103,303
Ishii and Sunaga. See Holmwood v. Sugavanam, 948 F.2d 1236,
1238-39,
20 USPQ2d 1712, 1714 (Fed. Cir. 1991). In Holmwood, the court
stated that it cannot ignore the realities of technical
operations in modern day research laboratories, finding that
the testimony of a junior technician performing perfunctory
tasks under the supervision of a senior scientist is not
generally necessary to verify the reliability of evidence
about scientific methods or data, where there is an absence of
evidence to call into question the trustworthiness of the
senior scientist's testimony. Here, we have no evidence to
question the trustworthiness of the testimony of Dr. Asanuma,
the senior scientist supervisor of Messrs. Ishii and Sunaga.
The Asanuma motions to suppress are denied. The motions
urge that certain evidence (testimony and exhibits) relied
upon by the party Galimberti et al. are not relevant to the
issues to be considered at final hearing. The motions do not
point out where that evidence is relied upon by the party
Galimberti et al.'s opening brief. In any event, we are of
the view that the evidence, in toto, should not be suppressed,
but rather should remain in the case and be subject to
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