Appeal 2006-3236
Inter Partes Reexamination Control No. 95/000,006
INTER PARTES REEXAMINATION
A request was filed on December 4, 2002, by Third-Party Requester
Entegris, Inc., Chaska, MN, for inter partes reexamination of U.S. Patent
6,357,595 (the '595 patent) issued March 19, 2002, to Shigeru Sembonmatsu
and Manubu Ishikawa, based on Application 09/559,348, filed
April 27, 2000, entitled "Tray for Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Device,"
assigned to real parties in interest NEC Corporation and Sumitomo
Chemical Co., Ltd., both of Japan, which claims the foreign filing priority
benefit of Japanese Application 11/124326, filed April 30, 1999.
This inter partes reexamination was conducted under the regulations
of 37 C.F.R. §§ 1.902-1.997 (effective Feb. 5, 2001), and 37 C.F.R.
§§ 41.61-41.81 (effective September 13, 2004). The version of the
regulations does not affect any issues in the appeal.
Both a patent owner and a third-party requester may appeal and a
patent owner may be a party to any appeal taken by a third-party requester.
35 U.S.C. § 315. Thus, it is possible for the Requester, the Respondent here,
to become the Appellant on appeal and for the Patent Owners, the
Appellants here, to become Respondents or Cross-Appellants on appeal.
To prevent confusion over the parties in any appeal from this decision, we
refer in this opinion to the patent owners as the Patent Owners instead of
Appellants and to the third-party requester as the Requester instead of the
Respondent, except where "Appellants" and "Respondent" are used in the
names of the briefs or are used in quotations.
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