Paper 39 Merits Panel Mail Stop Interference P.O. Box 1450 Filed May 5, 2006 Alexandria Va 22313-1450 Tel: 571-272-9797 Fax: 571-273-0042 1 2 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 3 _______________ 4 5 BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS 6 AND INTERFERENCES 7 (Administrative Patent Judge James T. Moore) 8 _______________ 9 10 ANTHONY CORNELIUS O'SULLIVAN, 11 LAURENZ GSELL, RUDOLF NAEF, 12 MARCEL SENN, THOMAS PITTERNA, and 13 DAVID JOHN WADSWORTH, 14 Junior Party 15 (Application 09/091,333), 16 17 v. 18 19 UDO KRAATZ 20 Senior Party 21 (Patent 5,679,796). 22 _______________ 23 24 Patent Interference No. 105,277 25 (Technology Center 1600) 26 _______________ 27 28 29 Judgment - Request for Adverse - Bd. R. 127(b) 30 31 Before LANE, TIERNEY, and MOORE, Administrative Patent Judges. 32 MOORE, Administrative Patent Judge. 33 The application and patent involved in this interference have become commonly 34 owned. (Paper 34, page 2 and Paper 37). Accordingly, the Board required the -1-Page: 1 2 3 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007