Legal Opinion
Yoshihiro Fujikawa, Mikio Suzuki, Hiroshi Iwasaki, Mitsuaki Sakashita and Masaki Kitahara v. Sompong Wattanasin, (Two Cases)
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided August 28, 1996No. 95-1418, 95-1425PublishedCited by 68 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLEVENGER, Circuit Judge.
Yoshihiro Fujikawa et al. (Fujikawa) appeal from two decisions of the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences of the United States Patent & Trademark Office (Board) granting priority of invention in two related interferences to Sompong Wattanasin, and denying Fujikawa’s motion to add an additional sub-genus count to the interferences. We affirm.
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These interferences pertain to a compound and method for inhibiting cholesterol biosyn-thesis in humans and other animals. The compound count recites a genus of novel mevalonolactones. The method count recites a method of…
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