Legal Opinion
Walter C. Fiers v. Michel Revel and Pierre Tiollais v. Haruo Sugano, Masami Muramatsu and Tadatsugu Taniguchi
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided January 19, 1993No. 92-1170, 92-1171PublishedCited by 82 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOURIE, Circuit Judge.
Walter C. Fiers, Michel Revel, and Pierre Tiollais appeal from the June 5, 1991 decision of the Patent and Trademark Office Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, awarding priority of invention in a three-way interference proceeding, No. 101,096, to Haruo Sugano, Masami Muramatsu, and Tadatsugu Taniguchi (Sugano). We affirm.
BACKGROUND
This interference among three foreign inventive entities relates to the DNA 1 which codes for human fibroblast beta-interferon (/3 — IF), a protein that promotes viral resistance in human tissue. It involves a single count which reads:
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