THIS OPINION WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR PUBLICATION AND IS NOT BINDING PRECEDENT OF THE BOARD Filed by: Trial Section Merits Panel Paper No. 8 Box Interference, Washington, D.C. 20231 Tel: 703-308-9797 Fax: 703-305-0942 UNITED STATES PATENT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 LUTZ FREITAG, Junior Party, (Patent 5,601,593)1 v. PAUL H. BURMEISTER, CHARLES L. EUTENEUER, BRIAN J. BROWN, PAUL J. FORDENBACHER and ANTHONY C. VRBA Senior Party, (Application 08/737,492)2 Patent Interference No. 105,036 Before SCHAFER, LEE and TORCZON, Administrative Patent Judges. LEE, Administrative Patent Judge. Judgment 1 Based on application 08/517,162, filed August 18, 1995. The real party in interest is Willy Rusch AG. 2 Filed March 19, 1997. Accorded the benefit of application 08/246,320, filed May 19, 1994; and PCT/US95/06228, filed March 18, 1995. The real party in interest is Scimed Life Systems, Inc.Page: 1 2 3 4 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007