United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 25 April 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. 6,280,989, Dmitrik Kapitonov, Robert Yu, NOVEL
SIALYLTRANSFERASES, Interference No. 105,389, final judgment adverse to
the patentees rendered, December 12, 2005, as to claims 1-3, 6-7, 9-13.

Patent No. 4,912,314, Ronald A. Sink, A CHANNEL TYPE ELECTRON
MULTIPLIER WITH SUPPORT ROD STRUCTURE, Interference No. 104,068, final
judgment adverse to the patentees rendered, March 18, 2003, as to claims
1, 2, 5-9.

Patent No. 5,576,317, Susan F. Gonsalves, NK-1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS AND
5HT3 RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS FOR THE TREATMENT OF EMESIS, Interference No.
105,375, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered, January 18,
2006, as to claims 1-14 Ct. 2.

Patent No. 5,811,348, Takeshi Matsushita, Hiroshi Tayanaka, METHOD FOR
SEPARATING A DEVICE-FORMING LAYER FROM A BASE BODY, Interference No.
105,263, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered, October 27,
2005, as to claims 1-7, 9-11.

Patent No. 6,216,228, Sydney George Chapman, Julian Hamilton Jones,
CONTROLLING VIDEO OR IMAGE PRESENTATING ACCORDING TO ENCODED
CONTENT CLASSIFICATION INFORMATION WITHIN THE VIDEO OR IMAGE DATA,
Interference No. 105,209, final judgment adverse to the patentees
rendered, April 27, 2005, as to claims 1-11.

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