BECK et al v. STIMSON et al - Page 1




                                                                  Paper No. 133                        
            THIS OPINION WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR PUBLICATION                                               
            The opinion in support of the decision being entered today (1) was not                     
            written for publication in a law journal and (2) is not binding precedent                  
            of the Board.                                                                              
                          UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                    
                                          _______________                                              
                              BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                       
                                         AND INTERFERENCES                                             
                                          _______________                                              
                                       GARRETT H. DeVLIEG,                                             
                                           Junior Party,1                                              
                                                  v.                                                   
                                 ARNOLD A. BECK, EDGAR J. RUOF,                                        
                 JOHN NEDELK, RALPH J. HURLEY, and STEVEN R. SMITHBERGER,                              
                                           Junior Party,2                                              
                                                  v.                                                   
                              IAN L. STIMSON, RICHARD J. MILLER,                                       
                                      and GRAHAM CARRIER,                                              
                                           Senior Party.3                                              
                                           ______________                                              
                                Patent Interference No. 102,756                                        
                                           ______________                                              
                                   HEARD: November 10, 1998                                            
                                           _____________                                               
            STONER, Chief Administrative Patent Judge, and PATE, and MARTIN,                           
            Administrative Patent Judges.                                                              
            MARTIN, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                       



            1  Application Serial No. 07/457,053, filed December 26, 1989.  Assigned to                
            Boeing Company.                                                                            
            2  Patent No. 4,986,610, issued January 22, 1991, based on Application                     
            Serial No. 07/380,324, filed July 17, 1989.  Assigned to Aircraft Braking Systems          
            Corporation (ABSC).  Accorded benefit of Application Serial No. 07/312,994, filed          
            February 21, 1989, now Patent No. 4,923,056, issued May 8, 1990.                           
            3  Application Serial No. 07/696,750, filed May 7, 1991.  Assigned to Dunlop               
            Limited.  Accorded benefit of U.S. Application Serial No. 07/307,633, filed                
            February 8, 1989, and British Application No. 8803544, filed February 16, 1988.            




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