Interference No. 103,675
Q. At that point in time.
A. Yes.
See CR 1831, lines 4-12.
Dr. Kadow, the Bristol-Myers Squibb researcher who repeated
in 1996 Examples 2, 3, 5 and 6 from Chen et al.'s first filed
application, testified that:
The cyclopropataxol compounds within the Counts are very
complex. In addition, the discovery that those compounds
were produced by reactions disclosed in the Chen parent
applications was surprising.
CR 39. In explaining his testimony, Kadow stated that the discovery
was surprising because:
DAST reagent is a fluorinating reagent. So in general, one
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