Takai et al.v.Takai

Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences

Mar 30, 1998

07923596 (B.P.A.I. Mar. 30, 1998)

Application No. 07/923,596, filed August 3, 1992, now1
U.S. Patent No. 5,338,357, issued August 16, 1994. Accorded
Benefit of Japanese Application No. 3-282268, filed October 1,
1991. Assignor to Polyfibre S.A., Nyon.
Application No. 08/250,658, filed May 27, 1994. 2
Accorded Benefit of U.S. Application No. 07/936,000, filed
August 27, 1992, now abandoned; and Japanese Application No.
3-282268, filed October 1, 1991.
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THIS OPINION WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR PUBLICATION
The opinion in support of the decision being entered
today (1) was not written for publication in a law
journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the
Board.
Paper No. 26
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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YOUSUKE TAKAI, JOSEF STUDINKA
and BENOIT DE LHONEUX
Junior Party,1
v.
YOUSUKE TAKAI
Senior Party.2
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Interference No. 103,860

Before URYNOWICZ, SOFOCLEOUS and DOWNEY, Administrative Patent
Judges.
Interference No. 103,980
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SOFOCLEOUS, Administrative Patent Judge.
JUDGMENT
Pursuant to the decision on preliminary motions, it is
hereby adjudged that an interference-in-fact does not exist.
Accordingly, on the present record, Yousuke Takai, Josef
Studinka
And Benoit De Lhoneux, the junior party, are entitled to a
patent containing claims 1 to 16, and Yousuke Takai, the
senior party, is entitled to a patent containing claims 1 to
9.
STANLEY M. URYNOWICZ, JR. )
Administrative Patent Judge )
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MICHAEL SOFOCLEOUS ) BOARD OF PATENT
Administrative Patent Judge ) APPEALS AND
) INTERFERENCES
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MARY F. DOWNEY )
Administrative Patent Judge )