United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 04 December 2001
Adverse Decision in Interference In the designated interferences involving the following patents, final decisions have been rendered that the respective patentees are not entitled to a patent containing the claims listed. Patent No. 5,498,631, Sherwood L. Gorbach, Barry R. Goldin, Herman Adlercreutz, METHOD FOR TREATMENT OF MENOPAUSAL AND PREMENSTRUAL SYMPTOMS, Interference No. 104,576, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered November 1, 2001, as to claims 1-12. WANDA M. TIGNER, Sup'v. Legal Instruments Examiner Board of Patent Appeals & Interferences (703) 308-9797