RICHARDS et al. V. HARTLEY - Page 1




                                                                                                                     Paper 22                                         
                   Filed by: Merits Panel                                                                                                                             
                   Mail Stop Interference                                                                  Filed                                                      
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                                          UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                                                   
                                                                     _______________                                                                                  
                                                BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                                                    
                                                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                                                                    
                                                                     _______________                                                                                  
                                                               RODNEY M. RICHARDS,                                                                                    
                                                   THEODORE JONES, DAVID L. SNITMAN,                                                                                  
                                                              and GREGORY S. BROWN                                                                                    
                                                                          Junior Party                                                                                
                                                                     (Patent 5,427,929),                                                                              
                                                                                 v.                                                                                   
                                                                   JAMES L. HARTLEY                                                                                   
                                                                          Senior Party                                                                                
                                                                (Application 08/183,354).                                                                             
                                                                     _______________                                                                                  
                                                           Patent Interference No. 105,2571                                                                           
                                                                     _______________                                                                                  
                   Before SALLY GARDNER LANE, SALLY C. MEDLEY, and JAMES T. MOORE,                                                                                    
                   Administrative Patent Judges.                                                                                                                      
                   LANE, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                                                 


                                                            Judgment - Merits- Bd.R. 127                                                                              
                             The joint motion for a judgment of no interference-in-fact has been GRANTED.                                                             
                   (Paper 21).                                                                                                                                        
                             Richards has statutorily disclaimed certain of its patent claims.  Hartley has                                                           

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                      1Interferences 105,257 through 105,260 are related. Hartley application                                                                        
                   08/183,345 is involved in each of the interferences.                                                                                               





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