BRASHEARS V. LINKLETTER et al. - Page 16




          Interference No. 103,322                                                    



          Here again, Linkletter and Musil have failed to provide any                 
          corroboration of the testing in March that was alleged to have              
          established the reduction to practice.  Secondly, Linkletter                
          and Musil are again relying on conclusory statements instead                
          of underlying facts.   As noted above, such conclusory                      
          statements cannot provide a sufficient evidentiary basis for                
          us to determine a reduction    to practice has occurred.                    
          Accordingly, we cannot credit the                                           




          senior party with a reduction to practice based on inventive                
          acts said to have occurred in March 1990.  Consequently, it is              
          our determination that the senior party reduced the invention               
          to practice constructively by filing their application on                   
          May 25, 1990.                                                               


                               Senior Party Diligence                                 
                    Based on our findings and conclusions above, we note              
          that the junior party was the first party to reduce to                      
          practice,                                                                   


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