United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 28 March 2006

                      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. 5,783,700, Alfred C. Nichols, K. Lemone Yielding, QUINOLIC ACID
DERIVATIVES, Interference No. 104,522, final judgment adverse to the
patentees rendered, July 3, 2003, as to claims 1-15.


                                                            WANDA M. TIGNER
                                     Supervisory Legal Instruments Examiner
                                  Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences