Bachmeyer et al.v.BACHMEYER et al. V. Bachmeyer et al.

Patent Trials and Appeals Board

Mar 28, 2014

11375945 - (J) (P.T.A.B. Mar. 28, 2014)

BoxInterferences@uspto.gov Entered: 28 March 2014
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UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD

Patent Interference No. 105,968

Darrin M. Jones, Nicholas V. Anderson,
TEXTRON INNOVATIONS, INC.,
and LORD Corporation
(11/956,118),
Junior Party,

v.

LORD CORPORATION
(7,571,876 and 7,578,465),
Senior Party.

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

TORCZON, Administrative Patent Judge.

JUDGMENT
Bd.R. 127
on the merits

In view of the accompanying board decision on Textron's unopposed
motion—
Interference No. 105,968 Page 2

Judgment is entered against LORD for count 1, the sole count;
1

Claims 1-15 and 17-20 of Jones' involved 11/956,118 application are
cancelled;
The inventorship of the 11/956,118 application is Paul Joseph Bachmeyer,
Doug Hodgson, Darrin M. Jones and Nicholas V. Anderson;
The inventorship of the 7,571,876 patent is Paul Joseph Bachmeyer, Douglas
A. Swanson, Bryan J. Pittman, Scott K. Thompson, Doug A. Hodgson, Darrin M.
Jones and Nicholas V. Anderson;
The inventorship of the 7,578,465 patent is Paul Joseph Bachmeyer, Doug
A. Hodgson, Darrin M. Jones and Nicholas V. Anderson; and
A terminal disclaimer (Exhibit 2018) will be entered in the 11/956,118
application.

A party seeking judicial review must timely serve notice on the Director of
the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
2

A copy of this judgment will be entered in the administrative records of the
involved patents and the involved application.

cc:

MARSHALL S. HONEYMAN and A. JUSTIN POPLIN, Lathrop & Gage, L.C., of Kansas
City, Missouri.

MAURICE M. KLEE of Fairfield, Connecticut; with RICHARD G. MILLER, LORD
Corporation, of Cary, North Carolina.

1
Paper 1 at 3.
2
37 C.F.R. §§ 90.1 and 104.2.