Filed by: Merits Panel Paper 28
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UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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JORGE L. ACOSTA, MICHAEL P. SVETAL, MOHAMED A. SALIM
ROBERT W. RUDEEN, and CRAIG H. BONTLY
Junior Party1
(Application 10/825,444),
v.
DONALD A. COLLINS, JR., DANIEL B. SEEVERS,
WAYNE L. ORWIG, and SCOTT B. HENRY
Senior Party
(Patent 6,854,647).
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Patent Interference No. 105,327
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Before: MEDLEY, TIERNEY and MOORE, Administrative Patent Judges.
MEDLEY, Administrative Patent Judge.
Judgment - Bd.R. 127(b)
On 16 March 2006, the board received from the party Collins a paper styled
“CONCESSION OF PRIORITY BY PARTY COLLINS” (Paper 27), in which Collins concedes
priority of the contested subject matter pursuant to Bd.R. 127(b)(3).
Although the parties’ accorded benefit dates are the same, Acosta is named the junior party for purposes of1
this proceeding.
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