United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 20 April 2004

                       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. 5,950,006, Kenneth C. Crater, Daniel L. Pierson,
OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMABLE CONTROLLER, Interference No. 105,129,
final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered January 13, 2004, as
to claims 1-16.

Patent No. 6,244,165, Joseph S. Trombley, Christopher John Rudy,
INTEGRATED COOLING, HEATING FOOD PREPARATION SYSTEM, Interference No.
105,144, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered November 28,
2003, as to claims 1-4, and 17-20.

Patent No. 5,951,261, Andrew Paczuski, REVERSIBLE DRIVE
COMPRESSOR, Interference No. 105,119, final judgment adverse to the
patentee rendered November 13, 2003, as to claims 1, 2, 6, 7, and 9-12.

Patent No. 6,001,224, Geoffrey N. Drummond, Richard Scholl,
ENHANCED REACTIVE DC SPUTTERING SYSTEM, Interference No. 104,720, final
judgment adverse to the patentee rendered June 27, 2003, as to claims
1-38.

                                                            WANDA M. TIGNER
                                                                Sup'v Legal
                                                       Instruments Examiner
                                    Board of Patent Appeals & Interferences