CHEN et al. v BOUCHARD et al. - Page 20



          Interference No. 103,675                                                      

    References Cited form (PTO-892) (Paper Number 2). On August 13, 1992,               
    Chen et al. filed an Information Disclosure Statement (IDS), which IDS              
    was acknowledged by the examiner on October 8, 1992. On November 12,                
    1992, Chen et al. authorized the issue fee to be paid and on November               
    18, 1992, the issue fee was charged against Chen et al.'s assignee's                
    Deposit Account Number 02.3850.                                                     
              On February 22, 1993, Chen et al. re-submitted their                      
    Petition to Withdraw From Issue under 37 C.F.R. §1.313(b)(5) which was              
    first submitted on January 19, 1993. In their petition, Chen et al.                 
    alleged that:                                                                       
              through continuing effort toward making better                            
              taxol derivatives, Applicants have recently                               
              discovered that some of the compounds claimed in                          
              the application had the incorrect structures.                             

    According to their petition, applicants discovered that:                            
              recent investigation has revealed that what was                           
              once believed to be the ß-fluorotaxol derivatives                         
              were actually cyclopropyl derivatives of the                              
              formula XXXV. [formula omitted]                                           
    Applicants expressed their desire to "correct their mistake and claim               
    the proper entities."                                                               
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