UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Patent and Trademark Office Address: BOX INTERFERENCE COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS AND TRADEMARKS Washington, D.C. 20231 S))))))))))))))))))))))Q Filed by: Judge Joan Ellis Telephone: (703) 308-9797 Facsimile: (703) 308-7953 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opinion in support of the decision being entered today (1) was not written for publication in a law journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper No. 21 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ ROY A. BLACK, PAUL A. SLEATH and SHIRLEY R. KRONHEIM, Junior Party,1 v. ANDREW D. HOWARD, SUSAN M. MOLINEAUX, MICHAEL J. TOCCI, JIMMY J. CALAYCAY and DOUGLAS K. MILLER, Senior Party,2 __________ Patent Interference No. 104,058 1Application Serial No. 08/203,716, filed February 28, 1994, now Patent No. 5,416,013, granted May 16, 1995. Assignee: Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated, Cambridge, MA. 2Application Serial No. 08/351,328, filed February 27, 1995. Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc., Whitehouse Station, NJ. 1Page: 1 2 3 4 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007