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          Interference No. 103,675                                                      

    samples by filling in  forms and furnishing the analytical group with               

    a proposed structural formula, molecular weight and empirical formula               

    for the sample. Sometime after the form submission, Dr. Chen would                  

    furnish the sample to be tested and, except for the sample number                   

    assigned to the sample, the various Bristol-Myers Squibb employees had              

    no independent knowledge of what the sample was or how it was                       

    synthesized. Indeed, the employees could not have determined from mere              

    inspection of the sample what was its nature or how it was                          

    synthesized. For many of the samples, at the time in question Dr. Chen              

    believed he had prepared mixtures of fluoro epimers of taxol and the                

    Bristol-Myers Squibb employees in the analytical department                         


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