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CENTIGRAM COMMUNICATIONS CORP. v. LEHMAN

Civ. A. No. 94 CV 773.

862 F.Supp. 113 (1994)

CENTIGRAM COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. Bruce LEHMAN, Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks, Defendant, and VMX, Inc., Intervenor-Defendant.

United States District Court, E.D. Virginia, Alexandria Division.

September 8, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph A. Mittelberger, Barry E. Bretschneider, Fish & Richardson, Washington, DC, David A. Henderson, John E. Gartman, Jodi L. Sutton, John W. Thornburgh, Fish & Richardson, Menlo Park, CA, for plaintiff.

Helen F. Fahey, U.S. Atty., Dennis E. Szybala, Asst. U.S. Atty., Alexandria, VA, Nancy J. Linck, Sol., Albin F. Drost, Deputy Sol., Richard E. Schafer, Acting Associate Sol., Joseph G. Piccolo, Asst. Sol., Arlington, VA, for defendant.

Anne E. Brookes, Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn, Houston, TX, Thomas Earl Patton, Tighe Patton Tabackman & Babbin, Washington, DC, Sid Leach, Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn, Houston, TX, for intervenor-defendant.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

ELLIS, District Judge.

The sole question presented in this case is whether the Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks (the "Commissioner") exceeded his lawful authority and acted contrary to law in promulgating 37 C.F.R. § 1.378(c). The Commissioner promulgated this Patent and Trademark Office ("PTO") regulation to implement the provisions of the 1992 Patent Act Amendments ("1992 Amendments")1,...

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