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                 Interference No. 103,146                                                                                                               



                                                               Senior Party.3                                                                           
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                                                Patent Interference No. 103,146                                                                         
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                                                  FINAL HEARING:  May 11, 1999                                                                          
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                 Before URYNOWICZ, PATE and LORIN, Administrative Patent                                                                                
                 Judges.                                                                                                                                
                 PATE, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                                     


                                                               FINAL DECISION                                                                           
                                   This is a final decision under 37 CFR § 1.658 in                                                                     
                 Interference No. 103,146.  The involved subject matter                                                                                 
                 concerns an external sensor for use in a thermodilution blood                                                                          
                 flow measuring system.  In such a system, a known quantity of                                                                          
                 cold injectate is delivered by catheter to a patient’s blood                                                                           
                 vessel. The cold injectate is mixed in the blood vessel with                                                                           
                 the patient’s own blood flow, and by measuring the temperature                                                                         

                          3Application 06/786,999, filed October 15, 1985.                                                                              
                 Accorded the benefit of Application 06/741,396, filed June 5,                                                                          
                 1985, abandoned, and Application 06/399,330, filed July 19,                                                                            
                 1982, abandoned.  Assignor to Baxter Int'l, Inc.                                                                                       
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