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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                   publication in a law journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                   
                                         UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                                                  
                                                                         __________                                                                                 
                                                BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                                                  
                                                                AND INTERFERENCES                                                                                   
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                                     CATHERINE A. HESSION, ROY R. LOBB, SUSAN E. GOELZ,                                                                             
                       LAURELEE OSBORN, CHRISTOPHER D. BENJAMIN and MARGARET D. ROSA                                                                                
                                                                         Junior Party1                                                                              
                                                                                v.                                                                                  
                                              G. EDGAR RICE and MICHAEL P. BEVILACQUA                                                                               
                                                                                         2                                                                          
                                                                        Senior Party                                                                                
                                                                         __________                                                                                 
                                                          Patent Interference No. 103,904                                                                           
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                   Before URYNOWICZ, SOFOCLEOUS and DOWNEY, Administrative Patent Judges.                                                                           
                   DOWNEY, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                                             



                            1Application 08/035,674, filed March 23, 1993, now Patent No. 5,357,056, issued                                                         
                   November 22, 1994.  Accorded benefit of Application 07/452,675, filed December 18,                                                               
                   1989, now Patent No. 5,272,263, issued December 21, 1993.  Assignee to Biogen, Inc..                                                             
                            2Application 08/099,102, filed July 29, 1993.  Accorded benefit of Application                                                          
                   07/310,201, filed February 14, 1989.                                                                                                             
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