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| September 8, 2010

Goeddel v. Sugano

On September 7, 2010, the Federal Circuit reversed and remanded the USPTO Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences decision awarding priority of invention to Sugano in an interference between U.S. patent application Serial No. 07/374,311 (Goeddel) and U.S. Patents No. 5,326,859 and No. 5,514,567 (Sugano). The interference counts related to DNA encoding the 166 amino acid mature human fibroblast interferon factor (hFIF) without a presequence.

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