Interference No. 103,675
In a decision mailed on February 22, 1993, applicants'
petition to withdraw the application from issue was granted and
applicants' expressed intention to abandon their application was
recognized. On the same date, a paper from the Office of the Assistant
Commissioner for Patents to the Director of the Office of Publication
and Dissemination was mailed to applicants indicating that: the
application was to be withdrawn from issue; the issue fee was not to
be refunded; and, an errata would be published in the March 9, 1993,
Official Gazette with respect to the withdrawal of the application
from issue. On March 10, 1993, a Notice of Abandonment acknowledging
applicants' express abandonment of the application was mailed to
applicants.
CHEN APPLICATION SERIAL NUMBER 08/006,423
On January 19, 1993, and before their first filed
application Serial Number 07/907,261 became abandoned, Chen et al.
filed application Serial Number 08/006,423 as a continuation of their
earlier filed application under the then current practice as a so-
called "Rule 60" continuation. On the same date as the application was
filed, Chen et al. filed two preliminary amendments to their
continuing application. The first preliminary amendment was the
standard request to accept the filing and set forth the fee, cross
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