Uchiumi et al.v.Takagi et al.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Nov 29, 2013

10539036 (P.T.A.B. Nov. 29, 2013)

Mail Stop Interference Paper No. 22
P.O. Box 1450 Entered: November 29, 2013
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UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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Namiki Seimitsu Housecki Kabushiki Kaisha
Junior Party
(Application No. 10/539,036)
(Inventors: Hidehiro Uchimi and Toshio Suzuki)

v.

Nidec Seimitsu Corporation
Senior Party
(US 7,023,114 B2)
(Inventors: Takahiro Takagi and Yuuki Yamada)
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Patent Interference 105,965 (HHB)
(Technology Center 2800)
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Before: SALLY G. LANE, JOHN G. NEW, and HUNG H. BUI, Administrative
Patent Judges.

BUI, Administrative Patent Judge.

Judgment – Request for Adverse
37 C.F.R. § 41.127(b)

Interference No. 105,965

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Pursuant to Rule 41.205(a) and former 35 U.S.C. §135(c), Junior Party
Namiki submitted a settlement agreement reached between Junior Party Namiki
and Senior Party Nidec, and requested that the settlement agreement be kept
separate from the interference file. Paper 19.
Pursuant to the Board’s recommendation, via email from paralegal on
November 19, 2013, Junior Party Namiki also filed a Request for Adverse
Judgment under 37 C.F.R. §41.127(b)(1) with prejudice against Junior Party
Namiki having attached thereto a request for Express Abandonment under 37
C.F.R. § 1.138 of the involved Patent Application Serial Number 10/539,036.
Paper 21.
A conference call to review the status of the settlement negotiations and to
discuss the parties’ list of proposed motions was scheduled on November 27, 2013
at 11:00 a.m. EDT as per Paper No. 18. However, in view of the request for
adverse judgment, the conference call is no longer necessary and is therefore
canceled. Junior Party Namiki’s Request for Adverse Judgment is GRANTED.
Accordingly, it is:
ORDERED that judgment on priority is entered against Junior Party
Namiki;
FURTHER ORDERED that claims 29-40 of Junior Party Namiki Patent
Application Serial Number 10/539,036, which correspond to Count 1, the sole
Count of the Interference (Paper 1 at 4-5), are finally refused. Former 35 U.S.C.
§135(a); and
FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this judgment shall be entered into
the administrative record of the involved Namiki application, Serial No.
10/539,036 and the involved Nidec patent, US Patent No. 7,023,114.
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Attorney for Junior Party – Namiki Seimitsu Housecki Kabushiki Kaisha:
Donald R. Studebaker
Jonathan L. Scherer
STUDEBAKER & BRACKETT, PC
12700 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 102
Reston, VA 20191
Email: don.studebaker@sbpatentlaw.com
Email: jonathan.scherer@sbpatentlaw.com
Email: info@sbpatentlaw.com

Attorney for Senior Party – Nidec Seimitsu Co., Ltd.:
Joseph R. Keating
KEATING & BENNET, LLP
1800 Alexander Bell Drive, Suite 200
Reston, VA 20191
Email: jKeating@kbiplaw.com

W. Todd Baker
OBLON, SPIVAK, MCCLELLAND, MAIER & NEUSTADT
1940 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
Email: tbaker@oblon.com