Interference No. 103,435
through 22); and
(6) The Kenneth Mayhan Declaration (C. R. 156-157.
Richard Christ’s notebook (Christ Exhibit 5) which is
dated January 25, 1985 to June 25, 1985, has a section
entitled “Methods to Improve the Bond between Elastomeric
Silicone and Embedded Haptic Materials” and list several
“methods” including plasma treatment of the anchor region.
In the First Christ Declaration (C. R. 0208), Richard
Christ states that he, Patricia Knight and Dave Fencil jointly
came up with a workable idea for using plasma and corona to
enhance the bonding of the haptic in the manner set forth in
the above count.
Dean Pettit states in his declaration (C. R. 0085) that
from approximately 1983 through approximately mid 1987, he
worked along with Richard Christ, Patricia King and others on
projects relating to ways of attaching haptics to optics of
intraocular lenses including using plasma and corona discharge
to treat the haptics. Dean Pettit states in his deposition
(C. R. 0137) that he initialed the Christ notebook (Christ
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