THIS DOCUMENT WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR PUBLICATION AND IS NOT BINDING PRECEDENT OF THE BOARD Filed by: Trial Section Merits Panel Paper No. 11 Mail Stop INTERFERENCE Entered August 10, 2006 1 Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences 2 United States Patent and Trademark Office 3 P.O. Box 1450 4 Alexandria, Virginia 22313-1450 4 Tel: 571-272-9797 Fax: 571-272-0943 5 6 7 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 8 _______________ 9 10 BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS 11 AND INTERFERENCES 12 _______________ 13 14 JAMES M. HARTMAN 15 Junior Party 16 (Application 09/264,944) 17 18 v. 19 20 RICHARD A. BOYOVICH AND LARRY D. SANTI 21 Senior Party 22 (Patent No. 5,811,738) 23 24 _______________ 25 26 Patent Interference No. 105,336 27 _______________ 28 29 Before SCHAFER, LEE, and MOORE, Administrative Patent Judge. 30 31 LEE, Administrative Patent Judge. 32 33 Judgment -- Merits -- Bd. R. 127 34 35 Background Facts 36 1. This interference was declared on June 9, 2006. 37 2. Junior party Hartman is involved on the basis of its Application 09/264,944, filed 38 March 9, 1999. 1Page: 1 2 3 4 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007