THIS DOCUMENT WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR PUBLICATION AND IS NOT BINDING PRECEDENT OF THE BOARD Filed by: Trial Section Merits Panel Paper No. 41 Mail Stop INTERFERENCE Entered October 27, 2005 Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences United States Patent and Trademark Office P.O. Box 1450 Alexandria, Virginia 22313-1450 Tel: 571-272-9797 Fax: 571-273-0042 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE _______________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES _______________ TAKESHI MATSUSHITA and HIROSHI TAYANAKA Junior Party (Patent 5,811,348)1 v. KIYOFUMI SAKAGUCHI and TAKAO YONEHARA Senior Party (Application 09/161,774)2 _______________ Patent Interference No. 105,263 _______________ Before SCHAFER, LEE, and MOORE, Administrative Patent Judges. LEE, Administrative Patent Judge. Judgment – Bd. Rule 127(b) 1 Based on Application 08/595,382, filed February 1, 1996. The real party in interest is Sony Corporation. 2 Filed September 29, 1998. Accorded the benefit of Application 08/863,717, filed May 27, 1997; Application 08/401,237, filed March 9, 1995; Japanese Application 7-045441, filed March 6, 1995; and Japanese Application 6- 039389, filed March 10, 1994. The real party in interest is Canon Kabushiki Kaisha.Page: 1 2 3 4 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007