DEVLIEG V. BECK et al. V. STIMSON et al. - Page 1




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          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          written for publication in a law journal and (2) is not binding precedent     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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