THIS DOCUMENT WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR PUBLICATION AND IS NOT BINDING PRECEDENT OF THE BOARD Filed by: Trial Division Merits Panel Paper No. 74 Mail Stop INTERFERENCE Entered July 19, 2006 Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences United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: 571-272-0943 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE _______________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES _______________ MASAAKI HIROYA and HIROSHI ASAO Junior Party (U.S. Patent No. 5,754,654)1 v. SHOLOM S. ROSEN Senior Party (Application 09/314,738)2 _______________ Patent Interference No. 105,355 _______________ Before LEE, HANLON and MOORE, Administrative Patent Judge. LEE, Administrative Patent Judge. 1 Judgment – Merits – Bd. R. 127 2 In accordance with the priority decision entered concurrently herewith but in a separate 3 paper, it is 4 ORDERED that judgment as to the subject matter of Count 1 is entered against junior 5 party MASAAKI HIROYA and HIROSHI ASAO; 1 Based on Application 08/558,741, filed November 16, 1995. The real party in interest is Hitachi, Ltd. 2 Filed May 19, 1999. The real party in interest is Citibank, N.A. Accorded the benefit of application 08/895,395, filed July 16, 1997; application 08/730,158, filed October 23, 1996; application 08/234,461, filed April 28, 1994; and application 08/575,699, filed December 19, 1995.Page: 1 2 3 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007