CHEN et al. v BOUCHARD et al. - Page 1




                    The opinion in support of the decision being                        
                    entered today was not written for publication                       
                   and is not binding precedent of the Board.                          

                                                              Paper No. 336             


                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                         
                                    _______________                                     
                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                            
                                   AND INTERFERENCES                                    
                                    _______________                                     
                           SHU-HUI CHEN and VITTORIO FARINA                             
                                     Junior Party1                                      
                                          v.                                            
             HERVÉ BOUCHARD, JEAN-DOMINIQUE BOURZAT and ALAIN COMMERCON                 
                                     Senior Party2                                      
                                    _______________                                     
                           Patent Interference No. 103,675                              
                                   ________________                                     
                                    FINAL DECISION                                      
                                   ________________                                     

          Before Metz, Hanlon and Lorin, Administrative Patent Judges.                  
          Metz, Administrative Patent Judge.                                            

               The subject matter contested in this interference is directed            
          to a particular group of compounds said to be useful for the                  
          treatment of cancer in humans and to compounds which are useful               


          1  Application 08/029,819, filed March 11, 1993, now U.S.                     
          Patent Number 5,254,580, issued on October 19, 1993.  Assigned to             
          Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, New York, New York.                             
          2  Application Serial Number 08/162,984, filed on December                    
          8, 1993. Accorded benefit of France 92 14813, filed on December 9,            
          1992. Assigned to Rhone-Poulene Rorer S.A.                                    
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