THIS OPINION WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR PUBLICATION AND IS NOT BINDING PRECEDENT OF THE BOARD Paper No. 87 Filed by: Merits Panel Box Interference Washington, D.C. 20231 Tel: 703-308-9797 Fax.: 703-305-0942 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE _______________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES _______________ AVISHAI NEVEL, JOHN B. LAWSON, KENDALL W. GORDON JR., and DAVID BONNEAU, Junior Party,1 v. ROBERT HOELLER, Senior Party.2 ______________ Patent Interference No. 104,025 ______________ FINAL DECISION AND JUDGMENT UNDER 37 CFR § 1.658(a) _____________ 1 Involved on (a) Patent 5,541,734, issued July 30, 1996, based on Application 08/209,421, filed March 10, 1994, and (b) Patent 5,570,188, issued October 29, 1996, based on Application 08/252,346, filed June 1, 1994. Both patents are assigned to Lawson-Hemphill, Inc. The '734 patent has been accorded the benefit of U.S. Application 08/150,613, filed November 10, 1993 (abandoned); the '188 patent has not been accorded the benefit of the '613 application or any other application (Paper No. 57). 2 Involved on Application 08/723,315, filed September 30, 1996. Hoeller has been accorded the benefit of the following applications: U.S. Application 08/531,485, filed September 21, 1995 (now Patent 5,671,061, issued September 23, 1997); U.S. Application 08/077,682, filed June 16, 1993 (abandoned); and Swiss Application 01 926/92-3, filed June 18, 1992.Page: 1Last modified: November 3, 2007