By Kevin E. Noonan — The parties in Interference No. 106,133, namely Senior Party Sigma-Aldrich and Junior Party the Broad Institute, Harvard University, and MIT (collectively, "Broad"), filed their respective lists of proposed preliminary motions four days prior to their August 3rd teleconference with the Board to present their arguments for the Board to grant leave to file any of them. Junior Party Broad proposed Substantive Preliminary Motion No. 1, to change the Count under 37 C.F.R. §§ 41.121(a)(1)(i) and 41.208(a)(2).* The justification here as in earlier interferences (Nos. 106,115 and 106,126) is to provide "a count broad enough to…
