Salvittiv.Williams

Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences

May 20, 2003

09837922 (B.P.A.I. May. 20, 2003)

1 Filed April 18, 2001. Accorded the benefit of application 60/198,525, filed April 19,
2000, and application 60/263,906, filed January 24, 2001.
2 Patent No. 6,269,576 is based on application 09/370532, filed August 9, 1999.
Application 09/758,825 was filed January 11, 2001, and accorded the benefit of Patent No.
6,269,576. The real party in interest is Springfield, Inc.
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AND IS NOT BINDING PRECEDENT OF THE BOARD
Filed by: Trial Section Merits Panel Paper No. 32
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UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES

ALFRED W. SALVITTI,
Junior Party,
(Application 09/837,922)1,
v.
CHARLES D. WILLIAMS,
Senior Party,
(Patent 6,269,576 and Application 09/758,825)2

Patent Interference No. 105,018

Before LEE, LANE and MEDLEY, Administrative Patent Judges.
LEE, Administrative Patent Judge.
Judgment
On May 12, 2003, senior party Williams filed a paper titled “WILLIAMS REQUEST
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FOR ADVERSE JUDGMENT” (Paper No. 31), requesting entry of adverse judgment against
the senior party. The request is granted. It is
ORDERED that judgment as to the subject matter of the count is hereby entered against
senior party CHARLES D. WILLIAMS;
FURTHER ORDERED that senior party CHARLES D. WILLIAMS is not entitled to its
claims 1-7, 18 and 19 of its involved Patent No. 6,269,576, which correspond to the count, and
that senior party CHARLES D. WILLIAMS is also not entitled to its claims 8-13 and 15-17 of its
involved Application 09/758,825, which correspond to the count; and
FURTHER ORDERED that if there is a settlement agreement, the parties should note
the requirements of 35 U.S.C. § 135(c) and 37 CFR § 1.666; and
FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this judgment be filed in the respective involved
application or patent of the parties.
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Sally C. Medley )
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By Facsimile
Counsel for Senior Party Williams:
317-637-7561 (Fax)
John C. McNett, Esq.
Woodard, Emhardt, Naughton, Moriarty
& McNett LLP
Bank One Center/Tower
111 Monument Circle, Suite 3700
Indianapolis, IN 46204-4137
Counsel for Junior Party Salvitti:
610-359-8580 (Fax)
Robert B. Famiglio, Esq.
P.O. Box 1999
Media, PA 19063