Sprecher et al.v.Sprecher et al. V. Ghilardi et al.

Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences

Apr 6, 2010

11551337 (B.P.A.I. Apr. 6, 2010)

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Telephone: 571-272-4683 ENTERED: 6 April 2010

UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES

Patent Interference No. 105,723

GENENTECH, INC.,
a subsidiary of Roche Holdings, Inc.
(11/548,639),
Junior Party,

v.

ZYMOGENETICS, INC.
(7,495,080 and 7,521,537),
Senior Party.

Before: RICHARD E. SCHAFER, RICHARD TORCZON, and MICHAEL
P. TIERNEY, Administrative Patent Judges.

TORCZON, Administrative Patent Judge.

JUDGMENT
Bd.R. 127(b)
on request

The junior party (Genentech) has conveyed through counsel to a
paralegal specialist of the board its intent to concede priority and its
preference that judgment be entered. Accordingly—
Interference No. 105,723 Page 2

Judgment is ENTERED AGAINST Genentech for count 1, the sole
count;1 and
Claims 22-27, 29-31, 41, and 50-56 of Genentech's involved
11/548,639 application are FINALLY REFUSED.2

A copy of this judgment will be entered in the administrative records
of the involved patents and the involved application.

cc:

K. Shannon Mrksich, BRINKS HOFER GILSON & LIONE, P.C., of Chicago,
Illinois, with Eric J. Baude, BRINKS HOFER GILSON & LIONE, P.C., of Ann
Arbor, Michigan

Michael J. Wise, PERKINS COIE LLP, of Los Angeles, California; and Patrick
D. Morris, PERKINS COIE LLP, of San Francisco, California

1 Paper 1 (Declaration) at 3.
2 35 U.S.C. 135(a).