VON DEYN et al.v.ADACHI et al.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Aug 27, 2014

09202204 (P.T.A.B. Aug. 27, 2014)

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BoxInterferences@uspto.gov Filed: 27 August 2014
Tel: 571-272-4683

UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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NIPPON SODA CO., LTD.
Junior Party
(Patent 6,147,031),

v.

BASF SE
Senior Party
(Application 09/091,300).

Patent Interference No. 106,006
(Technology Center 1600)

JUDGEMENT
Bd. R. 127(b)

Before RICHARD E. SCHAFER, DEBORAH KATZ, and HUNG H. BUI
Administrative Patent Judges.

KATZ, Administrative Patent Judge.
In view of Nippon Soda Co., Ltd. Request for Adverse Judgment (Paper 15) 1
it is— 2
ORDERED that judgment on priority be entered against junior party Nippon 3
Soda for Count 1 (Declaration, Paper 1); 4

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FURTHER ORDERED that claims 1 and 2 of Nipon Sonda’s involved 1
patent 6,147,031 be CANCELED, 35 U.S.C. 135(a); and 2
FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this judgment be entered in the 3
administrative records of the involved patent 6,147,031 and application 4
09/091,300. 5
FURTHER ORDERED that a party seeking judicial review timely serve 6
notice on the Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. 7
37 C.F.R. §§ 90.1 and 104.2. 8

NOTICE: "Any agreement or understanding between parties to an interference,
including any collateral agreements referred to therein, made in connection with or
in contemplation of the termination of the interference, shall be in writing and a
true copy thereof filed in the Patent and Trademark Office before the termination
of the interference as between the said parties to the agreement or understanding."
35 U.S.C. 135(c); see also Bd.R. 205 (settlement agreements).

cc (via e-mail):

Attorney for Nippon Soda Co., Ltd.

Joseph R. Englander
Daniel J. Barsky
SHUTTS & BOWEN LLP
E-mail: jenglander@shutts.com
E-mail: dbarsky@shutts.com

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Attorney for BASF SE

Janelle D. Waack
Jason W. Bryan
NOVAK DRUCE CONNOLLY BOVE + QUIGG, LLP
E-mail: janelle.waack@novakdruce.com
E-mail: jason.bryan@novakdruce.com