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                             THE OPINION IN SUPPORT OF THE DECISION BEING ENTERED TODAY WAS NOT                                                           
                             WRITTEN FOR PUBLICATION AND IS NOT BINDING PRECEDENT OF THE BOARD                                                            

                  Fled by: Trial Section Merits Panel      Paper No.  16                                                                                  
                  Mail Stop INTERFERENCE Entered May 25, 2007                                                                                             
                  Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences                                                                                               
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                                        UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                                         
                                                                 _______________                                                                          

                                              BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                                          
                                                            AND INTERFERENCES                                                                             
                                                                 _______________                                                                          

                                            KAZUSHIGE NAKAMURA, AKIO MARUYAMA,                                                                            
                                               NORIYUKI TAKAGI and MICHIYO SEKIYA                                                                         
                                                                     Junior Party                                                                         
                                                                 (Patent 5,693,443)1                                                                      

                                                                           v.                                                                             

                                                     KIMIYUKI ITO, KEIICHI INAGAKI                                                                        
                                                              and TAKESHI ISHIDA                                                                          
                                                                     Senior Party                                                                         
                                                            (Application 09/955,030)2                                                                     
                                                                 _______________                                                                          

                                                         Patent Interference No. 105,554                                                                  
                                                            (Technology Center 1700)                                                                      
                                                                 _______________                                                                          

                  Before LEE, LANE, and MOORE, Administrative Patent Judges.                                                                              

                  LEE, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                                       

                                             Judgment -- Request for Adverse -- Bd. R. 127(b)                                                             

                                                                                                                                                         
                  1      Based on Application 08/746,980, filed November 19, 1996.  The real party in interest is Canon Kabushiki                         
                  Kaisha.                                                                                                                                 
                  2      Filed September 19, 2001.  Accorded the benefit of Application 08/693,717, filed August 7, 1996.  The real                       
                  party in interest is Minolta Co., Ltd.                                                                                                  







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