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opinion in support of the decision being entered today (1) was not written for publication in a law journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.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.Page: 1Last modified: November 3, 2007