HIROYA et al. V. ROSEN - Page 1






                                       THIS DOCUMENT WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR PUBLICATION                                                                                             
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                    Filed by: Trial Division Merits Panel                                                                                   Paper No. 74                         
                    Mail Stop INTERFERENCE                                                                                Entered   July 19, 2006                                
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                                              UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                                                          
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                                                     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                                                                                  
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                                                                  Patent Interference No. 105,355                                                                                
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                    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.                                                                                                             







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