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. 5,535,518, Wolfgang Althaus, UNIQUE TWO-AXIS
PIVOTING SHAVING SYSTEM, Interference No. 104,158, final judgment
adverse to the patentee rendered March 28, 2001, as to claims 1-9, 12
and 13.

   Patent No. 4,775,716, George Kipouras, Alan R. Federl,
ANTISTATIC THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITION, Interference No. 103,029, final
judgment adverse to the patentees rendered March 9, 2000, as to claims
1-16.

   Patent No. 5,632,322, Jerry E. Trickel, Lyn O. Trickel, DIE
CASTING APPARATUS FOR CASTING SMALL PARTS FROM MATERIALS THAT EXPAND
WHEN TRANSITIONING FROM THE LIQUID STATE TO THE SOLID STATE,
Interference No. 103,972, final judgment adverse to the patentees
rendered March 30, 2001, as to claims 1-12.

   Patent No. 5,540,685, David J. Parins, Richard K. Poppe,
BIPOLAR ELECTRICAL SCISSORS WITH METAL CUTTING EDGES AND SHEARING
SURFACES, Interference No. 104,190, final judgment adverse to the
patentees rendered February 16, 2001, as to claims 1-12.

   Patent No. 4,803,164, Ronald A. Hitzeman, Arthur D. Levinson,
Daniel G. Yansura, PREPARATION OF HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN IN YEAST,
Interference No. 102,416, final judgment adverse to the patentees
rendered June 30, 1999, as to claims 1-11.

   Patent No. 5,391,789, Jurgen Bohrmann, BRIDGES, CHIRAL
METALLOCENES, PROCESSES FOR THEIR PREPARATION AND THEIR USE AS
CATALYSTS, Interference No. 104,626, final judgment adverse to the
patentee rendered June 27, 2001, as to claims 6, 9-18.

   Patent No. 5,719,146, Kozo Shiokawa, Shinichi Tsuboi, Koichi
Moriya, Yumi Hattori, Ikuro Honda, Katsuhiko Shibuya, INSECTICIDAL
HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS, Interference No. 104,525, final judgment
adverse to the patentees rendered June 27, 2001, as to claims 1-3.


                                              WANDA M. TIGNER, Sup'v. Legal
                                                       Instruments Examiner
                                    Board of Patent Appeals & Interferences
                                                             (703) 308-9797