DeJovin et al.v.Gil et al. V. DeJovin et al. V. Dejovin et al.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

May 16, 2014

13775784 (P.T.A.B. May. 16, 2014)

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UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD

Patent Interference No. 105,976

ALLERGAN, INC.
(13/768,901),
Junior Party,

v.

GALDERMA LABORATORIES INC.
(7,439,241 and 8,426,410 and 13/775,784),
Senior Party.

Before: RICHARD TORCZON, DEBORAH KATZ and HUNG H. BUI,
Administrative Patent Judges.

TORCZON, Administrative Patent Judge.

JUDGMENT
Bd.R. 127(b)
requested

Interference No. 105,976 Page 2

The junior party (Allergan) requests adverse judgment.
1
Accordingly—

Judgment is ENTERED AGAINST Allergan for count 1, the sole count;
2

and
Allergan's involved claims 1 and 2
3
are FINALLY REFUSED.
4

A copy of this judgment shall be entered in the respective administrative
records of the involved application and patents.
Although it would be unusual to seek judicial review of a requested
judgment without a decision on the merits, if a party does so the party must timely
serve the Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
5

cc:

R. DANNY HUNTINGTON and R. ELIZABETH BRENNER-LEIFER, Rothwell, Figg, Ernst
& Manbeck, P.C., of Washington, D.C.

STEVEN P. O'CONNER, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP, of
Reston, Virginia; and M. PAUL BARKER, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett &
Dunner LLP, of Palo Alto, California.

1
Paper 37.
2
Paper 1 (Decl.) at 3.
3
Id.
4
35 U.S.C. 135(a) (2012).
5
37 C.F.R. §§ 90.1 & 104.2.