Chen et al.v.Furutani et al.

Patent Trials and Appeals Board

Mar 10, 2020

15867306 - (J) (P.T.A.B. Mar. 10, 2020)

BoxInterferences@uspto.gov Filed: March 10, 2020
Tel: 571-272-9797

UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE

BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD

MASAHIRO FURUTANI,
AKIHIRO UENISHI, KOICHIRO IWASA,
STEFAN JENNEWEIN, and
RAINER FISCHER,

Junior Party
(Patent 9,783,828)
v.

WENDY YITING CHEN,
FUNGMIN LIEW, and MICHAEL KOEPKE,

Senior Party
(Application 15/867,306).

Patent Interference No. 106,121
(Technology Center 1600)

Before SALLY GARDNER LANE, JAMES T. MOORE and DEBORAH KATZ,
Administrative Patent Judges.

LANE, Administrative Patent Judge.

Judgment - Request for Adverse - Bd. R. 127(b)

Interference 106,121

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Discussion 1
Junior party Masahiro Furutani, Akihiro Uenishi, Koichiro Iwasa, Stefan 2
Jennewein, and Rainer Fischer (Furutani) requests adverse judgment as to Count 1, 3
the sole Count of the interference. (Furutani Request for Adverse Judgment, Paper 4
25). The request is GRANTED.1 5
Order 6
It is 7
ORDERED that judgment on priority as to Count 1, the sole count of the 8
interference, is entered against junior party Furutani; 9
FURTHER ORDERED that claims 1-17 of junior party involved patent 10
9,783,828, which correspond to Count 1 (Paper 1, Declaration, 4), are 11
CANCELLED; 35 U.S.C. § 135(a);2 and 12
FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this judgment be entered into the 13
administrative records of involved patent 9,783,828 and involved application 14
15/867,306. 15

1 In view of this judgment the conference call scheduled for March 17, 2020 is
cancelled and the parties need not file a list of motions they had intended to file.
(See Declaration, Paper 1, 2).
2 Any reference to a statute in this judgment is to the statute that was in effect
on March 15, 2013 unless otherwise indicated. See Pub. L. 112-29, § 3(n), 125
Stat. 284, 293 (2011).
Interference 106,121

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cc (via electronic):

Attorney for Furutani:

Jill M. Browning
Michael J. Fink
GREENBLUM & BERNSTEIN, P.L.C.
jbrowning@gbpatent.com
mfink@gbpatent.com

Attorney for Chen:

Blair A. Silver
Joseph J. Berghammer
Janice Mitrius
BANNER & WITCOFF, LTD.
bsilver@bannerwitcoff.com
jberghammer@bannerwitcoff.com
jmitrius@bannerwitcoff.com