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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001299130-20-000098
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	CORRESP
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
FILED AS OF DATE:		20200630

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			PACIFIC BIOSCIENCES OF CALIFORNIA, INC.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001299130
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	LABORATORY ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENTS [3826]
		IRS NUMBER:				161590339
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1305 O'BRIEN DRIVE
		CITY:			MENLO PARK
		STATE:			CA
		ZIP:			94025
		BUSINESS PHONE:		650-521-8000

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1305 O'BRIEN DRIVE
		CITY:			MENLO PARK
		STATE:			CA
		ZIP:			94025

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	PACIFIC BIOSCIENCES OF CALIFORNIA INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20050829

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	NANOFLUIDICS INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20040729
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						<font style="display: inline;font-family:Georgia;color:#003D4C;font-size:8pt;">Wilson Sonsini Goodrich &amp; Rosati</font><br /><font style="display: inline;font-family:Georgia;color:#003D4C;font-size:8pt;">Professional Corporation</font></p>

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			<a name="_GoBack"></a><font style="display: inline;">June </font><font style="display: inline;">30</font><font style="display: inline;">, 2020</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;text-decoration:underline;">Via EDGAR and Overnight Delivery</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission</font><br /><font style="display: inline;">Division of Corporation Finance</font><br /><font style="display: inline;">100 F Street, N.E.</font><br /><font style="display: inline;">Washington, D.C. 20549</font><br /><font style="display: inline;">Attention</font><font style="display: inline;">:</font><font style="display: inline;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;">Christine Westbrook</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">Joe McCann</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;">Re</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;">:&nbsp; </font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;">Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. </font><br /><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;">Registration Statement on Form S-3 </font><br /><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;">Filed June 10, 2020</font><br /><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;"></font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;">File No. 333-239071</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">Ladies and Gentlemen:</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">On behalf of our client, Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (the &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;">Company</font><font style="display: inline;">&#x201D;), we submit this letter in response to comments from the staff (the &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;">Staff</font><font style="display: inline;">&#x201D;) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;">Commission</font><font style="display: inline;">&#x201D;) contained in its letter dated June 24, 2020, relating to the above</font><font style="display: inline;">-</font><font style="display: inline;">referenced Registration Statement on Form S-</font><font style="display: inline;">3</font><font style="display: inline;"> (the &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;">Registration Statement</font><font style="display: inline;">&#x201D;)</font><font style="display: inline;">.&nbsp; </font><font style="display: inline;">We are concurrently submitting via EDGAR this letter and a revised draft of the Registration Statement</font><font style="display: inline;"> (&#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;">Amendment No. 1</font><font style="display: inline;">&#x201D;)</font><font style="display: inline;">.&nbsp; </font><font style="display: inline;">For the Staff&#x2019;s reference, we are providing to the Staff by overnight delivery copies of this letter as well as both a clean copy of </font><font style="display: inline;">Amendment No. 1</font><font style="display: inline;"> and a copy marked to show all changes from the version </font><font style="display: inline;">filed</font><font style="display: inline;"> on June 10, 2020.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">In this letter, we have recited the comments from the Staff in italicized, bold type and have followed each comment with the Company&#x2019;s response</font><font style="display: inline;">.&nbsp; </font><font style="display: inline;">Except for page references appearing in the headings and Staff comments below (which are references to the original Registration Statement </font><font style="display: inline;">filed</font><font style="display: inline;">&nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;">on June 10, 2020), all page references herein correspond to the page of </font><font style="display: inline;">Amendment No. 1.</font><font style="display: inline;">&nbsp;</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;">Description of Capital Stock, page 6</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;">1.</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;;font-size: 11pt;font-family:Times New Roman;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 29.4pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;"></font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;">We refer you to Article XI of your bylaws, which identifies the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware as the exclusive forum for certain litigation, including any &#x201C;derivative action</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;">.&#x201D;&nbsp; </font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;">Please describe here the exclusive forum provision and disclose whether this provision applies to actions arising under the Securities Act or Exchange Act</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;">.&nbsp; </font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;">We note in this regard that Section 27 of the Exchange Act creates exclusive federal jurisdiction over all suits brought to enforce any duty or liability created by the Exchange Act or the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and Section 22 of the Securities Act creates concurrent jurisdiction for federal and state courts over all suits brought to enforce any duty or liability created by the Securities Act or the rules and regulations thereunder</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;">.&nbsp; </font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;">To the extent this provision applies to claims under the Securities Act, please </font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">June </font><font style="display: inline;">30</font><font style="display: inline;">, 2020</font>

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			<font style="display: inline;">The Company advises the Staff that the Company&#x2019;s forum selection provision provides that certain matters be litigated in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware</font><font style="display: inline;">, unless the Company consents to an alternative forum</font><font style="display: inline;">. This provision follows established Delaware case law (see Boilermakers Local 154 Ret. Fund v. Chevron Corp., C.A. No. 7220-CS (Del. Ch. June 25, 2013)) and legislation (see 8 Del. C. &#xA7;115). Accordingly, this provision is not intended to apply to claims arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended</font><font style="display: inline;"> (the &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;">Securities Act</font><font style="display: inline;">&#x201D;)</font><font style="display: inline;">, and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended</font><font style="display: inline;"> (the &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;">Exchange Act</font><font style="display: inline;">&#x201D;)</font><font style="display: inline;">. In response to the Staff&#x2019;s comment, the Company has revised its disclosure on page </font><font style="display: inline;">6</font><font style="display: inline;"> of Amendment No. 1 to clarify the intent of the Company&#x2019;s forum selection provision.</font><font style="display: inline;">&nbsp;</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">Further, the Company undertakes to provide the following in future Exchange Act periodic reports with respect to the discussion of the actions for which the Court of Chancery </font><font style="display: inline;">of the State of Delaware</font><font style="display: inline;">&nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;">will be the exclusive forum: </font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">This provision </font><font style="display: inline;">is not intended to </font><font style="display: inline;">apply to claims arising under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act</font><font style="display: inline;">, or any claim for which the federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction</font><font style="display: inline;">.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">June </font><font style="display: inline;">30</font><font style="display: inline;">, 2020</font>

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			<font style="display: inline;;font-size: 11pt;font-family:Times New Roman;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;"></font><font style="display: inline;">Please direct any questions regarding the Company&#x2019;s responses or the revised draft of the Registration Statement to </font><font style="display: inline;">me at (650) 849-3240 or to Donna Petkanics at (650) 320-4606</font><font style="display: inline;">.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH &amp; ROSATI</font>
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			<font style="text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt; padding-right:119.5pt;"><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">/s/ Andrew D. Hoffman</font></font><font style="text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt; padding-right:4pt;text-align:left"><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><br /><font style="display: inline;"></font><font style="display: inline;">Andrew D. Hoffman</font></font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">cc:</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;">&nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Michael Hunkapilller, Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.</font><br /><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"></font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Susan Barnes</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">, Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Brett Atkins, Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Donna Petkanics, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich &amp; Rosati, P.C.</font>
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