United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 20 May 2003

                   Requests for Ex Parte Reexamination Filed

   5,233,654, Reexam. C.N. 90/006,606, Requested Date: Apr.
18, 2003, Cl. 725/135, Title: SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHODS,
Inventor: John C. Harvey, et. al., Owner of Record: The
Personalized Mass Media Corporation, New York, NY, Attorney or
Agent: Hunton & Williams, Washington, DC, Ex. Gp.: 2611, Requester:
Thomson, Inc., Indianapolis, IN

   5,524,728, Reexam. C.N. 90/006,608, Requested
Date: Apr. 18, 2003, Cl. 184/029, Title: METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR
APPLYING LUBRICANT TO A HYDRODYNAMIC BEARING, Inventor: Carl D.
Williams, et. al., Owner of Record: Maxtor Corporation, Milpitas,
CA, Attorney or Agent: David B. Harrison, Quantum Corp., Milpitas,
CA, Ex. Gp.: 3682, Requester: George E. Oram, Jr., c/o Arent Fox
Kintner Plotkin & Kahn, PLLC, Washington, DC

   5,697,882, Reexam. C.N. 90/006,607, Requested
Date: Apr. 18, 2003, Cl. 604/114, Title: SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR
ELECTROSURGICAL CUTTING AND ABLATION, Inventor: Philip E. Eggers, et.
al., Owner of Record: Arthrocare Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA,
Attorney or Agent: Townsend and Townsend and Crew, San Francisco,
CA, Ex. Gp.: 3763, Requester: Smith and Nephew, Inc., Memphis, TN

   5,816,918, Reexam. C.N. 90/006,601, Requested
Date: Apr. 15, 2003, Cl. 463/016, Title: PRIZE REDEMPTION SYSTEM FOR
GAMES, Inventor: Matthew F. Kelly, et. al., Owner of Record:
Arcade Planet, Inc., Pleasanton, CA, Attorney or Agent:
Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly, Palo Alto, CA, Ex. Gp.: 3713, Requester:
Andre Gibbs, Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman, LLP, Los Angeles, CA

   6,105,871, Reexam. C.N. 90/006,603, Requested
Date: Apr. 16, 2003, Cl. 235/472.03, Title: PORTABLE BAR CODE SCANNER
APPARATUS, Inventor: James A. Campo, et. al., Owner of Record:
Symbol Technologies, Inc., Holtzville, NY, Attorney or
Agent: Lawrence H. Pretty, Pretty, Schroeder & Poplawski, Los Angeles,
CA, Ex. Gp.: 2876, Requester: Issac A. Molnar, Jones Day, Cleveland,
OH

   6,195,648, Reexam. C.N. 90/006,600, Requested
Date: Apr. 10, 2003, Cl. 705/040, Title: LOAN REPAY ENFORCEMENT SYSTEM,
Inventor: Frank Simon, et. al., Owner of Record: Payment
Protection Systems, Inc., Temecula, CA, Attorney or Agent: Burns
Doane Swecker & Mathis, LLP, Alexandria, VA, Ex. Gp.: 3624, Requester:
Matthew Rainey, Howrey Simon Arnold & White, LLP, Menlo Park, CA 

   6,343,581, Reexam. C.N. 90/006,604, Requested
Date: Apr. 17, 2003, Cl. 123/90.17, Title: VARIABLE VALVE TIMING AND
LIFT STRUCTURE FOR FOUR CYCLE ENGINE, Inventor: Atsushi Suzuki, Owner
of Record: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha, Iwata, Japan,
Attorney or Agent: Ernest A. Beutler, Newport Beach, CA, Ex. Gp.:
3748, Requester: Owners

   6,394,767, Reexam. C.N. 90/006,602, Requested
Date: Apr. 15, 2003, Cl. 417/423.1, Title: BLOWER AND A MANUFACTURING
METHOD OF THE SAME, Inventor: Kaoru Matsumoto, Owner of Record:
Minebea Co., Ltd., Kitasaku-gun, Japan, Attorney or Agent:
Oliff and Berridge, Alexandria, VA, Ex. Gp.: 3746, Requester: Owners

   6,503,529, Reexam. C.N. 90/006,605, Requested
Date: Apr. 17, 2003, Cl. 424/439, Title: BLOOD TYPE METHODS AND DIETARY
SUPPLEMENTS, Inventor: Albert M. Fleischner, Owner of Record:
Vitamerica Inc., Cedar Knolls, NJ, Attorney or Agent: Mark
Pohl, Pharmaceutical Patent Attorneys, Pohl & Associates,
Morristown, NJ, Ex. Gp.: 1615, Requester: Stephen P. McNamara,
Stamford, CT