Interference No. 103,270
disclosed to me the idea of providing a
mechanism to freeze a guidewire in position
within a guide catheter so that the
guidewire could not move longitudinally
relative to the guide catheter. He
explained that with the position of the
guidewire frozen, the indwelling over-the-
wire catheter could be withdrawn,
completely separated from the guidewire and
that with the position of the wire still
frozen, another over-the-wire catheter
could be threaded onto the guidewire and
advanced along the guidewire and through
the guide catheter.
Coelho also testified that thereafter, at the
brainstorming meeting he explained the method to those
present, including Barbere (CR-12). Barbere, a senior project
engineer in the NPD department, as well as Crittenden, the
engineering manager of angioplasty development, both testified
that Coelho disclosed his idea at the meeting (CR-41, 83).
However, Barbere could not recall the date of the meeting (CR-
42), and Coelho
states in his brief that Barbere's testimony "was never
intended to confirm the precise date of the brainstorming
meeting" (CB-59). Crittenden testified in his declaration
that the meeting was "[s]ometime before December 2, 1988" (CR-
12
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