92. Dr. Snitzer further testified that he sent all
pertinent information regarding his application to his patent
agent Dr. Stubbs and that he did not send Dr. Stubbs a copy of
the Hill manuscript (SR 419, $ 46).
93. Dr. Snitzer also testified that he checked his files
and did not fi nd a copy of the Hill manuscript (SR 419, $ 47).
94. Snitzer further testified that he was not very good at
keeping files (SR 972, lines 1-4 and SR 992, lines 19-20).
9S. Mr. Wachtman, one of the associate editors for Volume
23, testified that Dr. Snitzer was busy and that it was his
impression that Dr. Snitzer took direction from Dr. Laudise, who
took a strong interest in the Volume 23 (SR 284).
Snitzer's case of conception
96. Snitzer relies on the oral testimony of the Snitzer
inventors to demonstrate that they conceived of the method of the
count on 21 July 1992 (Paper 278 at 39).
97. Specifically, Drs. Snitzer and Prohaskatestified that
they conceived of disposing a periodic object mask, which
included using phase masks or amplitude masks, adjacent and
parallel to a photosensitive optical waveguide and applying a
single collimating light beam through the mask to the fiber (SR
408, 1 9; 459, $ 13).
98. Snitzer relies on the testimonies of Dr. Rishton and
Dr. Stubbs, an Invention Questionnaire, and the oral testimony of
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