Interference No. 104,190
Before CALVERT, PATE and HANLON, Administrative Patent Judges.
PATE, Administrative Patent Judge.
FINAL DECISION UNDER 37 CFR § 1.658(a)
This is a final decision in Interference No.
104,190. The junior party inventors are David J. Parins and
Richard K. Poppe and their involved U.S. Patent No. 5,540,6853
is assigned to Everest Medical Corporation. The filing date
of the junior party involved patent was May 5, 1995, and the
junior party has been accorded benefit of the filing date of
application Serial No. 08/369,379, filed January 6, 1995. The
senior party inventor is Charles R. Slater. Senior party
Slater is involved on his application Serial No. 08/806,386,
filed February 27, 1997, and assigned to Boston Scientific
Corporation. The Slater applica- tion has been accorded the
benefit of application Serial No. 08/354,992, filed December
13, 1994. Slater is the senior party by 23 days. Both
parties were represented by counsel in an oral hearing held
December 19, 2000.
3Henceforth the junior party inventors will be referred
to in the singular, i.e., as the first-named inventor Parins.
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