Legal Opinion
Christopher J. Stevens v. Shigeru Tamai
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided June 10, 2004No. 03-1479, 103,662PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLEVENGER, Circuit Judge.
Christopher J. Stevens appeals a final decision of the United States Patent Office Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (“Board”) granting priority in an interference proceeding to Shigeru Tamai. Because the Board erred in granting Shigeru Tamai the benefit of Japanese Patent Application No. 3-068371, we reverse.
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Christopher J. Stevens (“Stevens”) and Shigeru Tamai (“Tamai”) are parties to Interference No. 103,662, declared May 9, 1997. Stevens’s involved U.S. Patent No. 5,393,368 (“the '368 patent”) was filed February 7, 1994, and issued February 28, 1995.…
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