Filed by: Interference Trial Section Merits Panel Filed: Paper 46
Mail Stop Interference 31 August 2004
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UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES FAXED
AW 31 2W4
ALCOA, INC.,
Junior Party PAT & T M -OFFI r.E
(Application 09/473,246), SOARt) OF PATENT APPEA
ANDINTERFERENCES
V.
BRIDGESTONE GRAPHIC TECHNOLOGIES, INC.,
Senior Party
(Patent 6,017,657).
Patent Interference No. 105,176
JUDGMENT - RULE 602
Before: SCHAFER, LEE and NAGUMO, Administrative Patent Judges.
SCHAFER, Administrative Patent Judge.
Pursuant to an assignment dated July 2, 2004, Alcoa has obtained the "ftill and exclusive
right, title and interest in and to said invention and in and to all Letters Patent or similar legal
protection in the United States . . . ." of the subject matter of Patent 6,017,657. Thus, the involved
application and patent became commonly owned by Alcoa, Inc. Paper 9, p. 2. On August 20,2004,
an Administrative Patent Judge issued an order to show cause why, in view of the common
ownership, judgment should not be entered againstjunior party Application 09/473,246. Paper44.
In responding to the order to show cause, counsel for the common owner has not requested that
judgment be entered against the senior party.
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