Müllerv.Bergmann et al.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Jun 23, 2014

13131136 (P.T.A.B. Jun. 23, 2014)

BoxInterferences@uspto.gov Entered: 23 June 2014
Telephone: 571-272-4683

UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD

Patent Interference No. 105,997

Patrick VON HERTZBERG
(13/139,053),
Junior Party,

v.

Wenzel BERGMANN
and Thomas Müller
(13/131,136),
Senior Party.

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

TORCZON, Administrative Patent Judge.

JUDGMENT
Bd.R. 127(b)(4)
abandonment of contest

As explained in the accompanying order, the junior party (von Hertzberg)
has elected not to file a priority statement. Accordingly—
Interference No. 105,997 Page 2

Judgment is entered against von Hertzberg for the subject matter of count 1,
the sole count.
1

Claims 1-24 and 28-34 of von Hertzberg's involved 13/139,053 application
are FINALLY REFUSED.
2

A copy of this judgment shall be entered in the administrative records of the
involved applications.

Any party seeking judicial review timely must serve notice on the Director
of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
3

cc:

KEVIN E. NOONAN, LISA M.W. HILLMAN and SARAH FENDRICK, McDonnell
Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP, of Chicago, Illinois.

JEFFREY L. CLARK and JOHN S. MORTIMER, Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark &
Mortimer, of Chicago, Illinois.

APJ Initials:
HHB
DK
RT

1
Paper 1 at 3.
2
35 U.S.C. 135(a) (2012).
3
37 C.F.R. §§ 90.1 and 104.2.