Adverse Decisions in Interference

  In the designated interferences involving the following patents, final
decisions have been rendered that the respective patentees are not
entitled to patents containing the claims listed.

Patent No. 5,022,171, Roy Norfolk, Arnold Lazarus, MATRIX DISPLAY ASSEMBLY
HAVING MULTIPLE POINT LIGHTING, Interference No. 103,460 final judgment
adverse to the patentee rendered January 23, 1995, as to claims 1-11.

Patent No. 4,591,570, Tse-Wen Chang, MATRIX OF ANTIBODY-COATED SPOTS FOR
DETERMINATION OF ANTIGENS, Interference No. 102,813, final judgment
adverse to the patentee rendered September 29, 1994, as to claims 1-16,
18, 20-21.

Patent No. 4,597,961, Frank T. Etscorn, TRANSCUTANEOUS APPLICATION OF
NICOTINE, Interference No. 102,530, final judgment adverse to the patentee
rendered September 29, 1993, as to claims 1-15.

Patent No. 4,691,530, Milton Meckler, COGENERATION AND CENTRAL
REGENERATION MULTI-CONTACTOR AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM, Interference No.
102,879, final judgment adverse to the patentee rendered March 25, 1994,
as to claims 1, 3, 5-8 and 15-17.

Patent No. 4,820,791, James C. Fletcher, Administrator of NASA, with
respect to an invention of Paul M. Hergenrother, Stephen J. Havens,
POLYIMIDES CONTAINING CARBONYL AND ETHER CONNECTING GROUPS, Interference
No. 102,780, final judgment adverse to the patentee rendered September 28,
1994, as to claims 1 and 3.

Patent No. 4,817,601, Laurence A. Roth, Stephen J. Herman, Carl R.
Turnquist, Edward L. Sinofsky, Jacob Y. Wong, CATHETER SYSTEM FOR
CONTROLLED REMOVAL BY RADIANT ENERGY OF BIOLOGICAL OBSTRUCTIONS,
Interference No. 102,838, final judgment adverse to the patentee rendered
December 21, 1994, as to claims 1-50.

Patent No. 4,850,676, Minoru Yazaki, Yuzuru Sato, Akihiko Ito, METHOD FOR
DRIVING A LIQUID CRYSTAL ELEMENT, Interference No. 103,212, final judgment
adverse to the patentee rendered December 6, 1994, as to claims 1-10.

Patent No. 4,870,131, Ramesh M. Pisipati, Joseph O. Campbell, LOW GLOSS
MOLDING COMPOSITION, Interference No. 102,555, final judgment adverse to
the patentee rendered September 30, 1993, as to claims 1-4.

Patent No. 4,982,250, Peter W. Manos II, Roger S. Countryman, Jr.,
MOISTURE BARRIER FOR FLOATING GATE TRANSISTORS, Interference No. 102,861,
final judgment adverse to the patentee rendered January 18, 1995, as to
claims 1 and 5.

Patent No. 5,005,039, Masataka Hamada, Tokuji Tshida, Kenji Ishibashi,
AUTOFOCUSING CAMERA, Interference No. 102,929, final judgment adverse to
the patentee rendered September 21, 1994, as to claims 8 and 9.

Patent No. 5,026,598, Noboru Koyama, Yasushi Nakano, Setsuko Kawahara,
Noboru Nakajima, MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, Interference No. 103,442 final
judgment adverse to the patentee rendered December 5, 1994, as to claims
1-14.

Patent No. 5,043,982, Jean-Jacques Werner, MUTLICHANNEL MULTIPOINT NETWORK
USING TIME-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING INCORPORATING A TIME OFFSET FOR
PROPAGATION DELAY, Interference No. 103,329, final judgment adverse to the
patentee rendered January 24, 1995, as to claims 1-19.

Patent No. 5,045,934, Katsuya Kikuchi, ELECTRONIC ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS
CAPABLE OF INDICATING OVER-EXPOSURE AREA ON FUNCTIONAL IMAGE, Interference
No. 103,314, final judgment adverse to the patentee rendered December 6,
1994, as to claims 1, 2, and 4-7.

Patent No. 5,092,673, Naohiko Hayashi, CAMERA WITH SELF-TIMER DEVICE,
Interference No. 103,151, final judgment adverse to the patentee rendered
December 19, 1994, as to claims 1-4.

Patent No. 5,077,642, Stephen P. Lisak, HORIZONTAL ZERO ADJUSTER FOR
AUTOMOTIVE HEADLAMP, Interference No. 102,980, final judgment adverse to
the patentee rendered December 22, 1994, as to claims 1-15.

Patent No. 5,101,205, Akira Yasuda, AID CONVERTER INCLUDING ERROR
CORRECTION FOR A LOCAL DIA CONVERTER, Interference No. 103,090, final
judgment adverse to the patentee rendered August 24, 1994, as to claims
1-9, 11 and 17.

Patent No. 5,112,003, Roger G. Covington, Daniel M. Pagano, FILM CASSETTE
WITH SHUTTER LIGHT-LOCK, Interference No. 103,181, final judgment adverse
to the patentee rendered January 11, 1995, as to claim 1.

Patent No. 5,185,483, Hirokazu Aoyama, Takashi Yasuhara, Satoru Kono,
Satoshi Koyama, Souichi Ueda, PROCESS FOR PREPARING
PENTAFLUORODICHLOROPROPANES, Interference No. 103,544, final judgment
adverse to the patentee rendered January 19, 1995, as to claims 1-8.

Patent No. 5,188,832, Heinz Mehlhorn, Horst Taraschewski, Gunter Schmahl,
Wolfgang Raether, Manfred Rosner, AGENTS DIRECTED AGAINST PARASITES OF
FISHES AND INSECTS, Interference No. 103,384, final judgment adverse to
the patentee rendered January 27, 1995, as to claims 1-9 and 11.

                                                  OLIVIA M. DUVALL, Sup'v Legal
                                                           Instruments Examiner
                                                      Board of Patent Appeals &
                                                                  Interferences
                                                                 (703) 603-3298