United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 01 April 2003

                       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. 5,021,179, Eugene R. Zehler, Nicholas Schnur,
LUBRICATION FOR REFRIGERANT HEAT TRANSFER FLUIDS, Interference No.
103,526, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered June 14,
2001, as to claims 1-20.

   Patent No. 5,185,092, Masaaki Fukuda, Hirotaka Tomizawa, Mitsuo
Ohta, Hideki Osaka, Satoshi Ogano, Takehisa Satoh, Kenji Ashibe,
Takeshi Nomura, LUBRICATING OIL FOR REFRIGERATOR, Interference No.
103,526, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered June 14,
2001, as to claims 1-20.