Adverse Decisions in Interference - OG Date: 17 October 2006

United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 17 October 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. 5,701,202, Koichi TaKahashi, A HEAD OR FACE MOUNTED IMAGE
DISPLAY APPARATUS, Interference No. 105,341, final judgment adverse to the
patentees rendered, June 21, 2006, as to claims 1-33.

   Patent No. 6,448,495, Micheal Mattei, Robert P. Auteri, FIBER OPTIC
CABLE RACEWAY OUTLET WITH RACEWAY COVER, AND METHOD, Interference No.
105,392, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered, March 29, 2009,
as to claims 1, 6, 7, 8, 15, and 16.

   Patent No. 6,451,712, Timothy Joseph Dalton, Stephen Edward Greco,
Jeffrey Curtis Hedrick, Satyanarayana V. Nitta, Sampath Purushothaman,
Kenneth Parker Rodbell, Robert Rosenberg, METHOD FOR FORMING A POROUS
DIELECTRIC MATERIAL LAYER IN A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND DEVICE FORMED,
Interference No. 105,410, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered,
May 23, 2006, as to claims 26-32, and 34.

   Patent No. 6,528,700, Christopher L. Baszxynski, Benjamin A. Bowen, John
H. Duesing, Laura A. Tagliani, David J. Peterson, Tong Zhu, TARGETED
MANIPULATION OF GENES IN PLANTS, Interference No. 105,416, final judgment
adverse to the patentees rendered, March 14, 2006, as to claims 1-32.

   Patent No. 6,159,485, Ruey J. Yu, Eugene J. Van Scott, N-ACETYL
ALDOSAMINES, N- ACETYLAMINO ACIDS AND RELATED N-ACETYL COMPOUNDS AND THEIR
TOPICAL USE, Interference No. 105,371, final judgment adverse to the
patentees rendered, June 20, 2006, as to claims 2, 5, 13, and 16.

   Patent No. 5,768,024, Koichi Takahashi, IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS,
Interference No. 105,342, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered,
June 21, 2006, as to claims 13-17.

   Patent No. 5,720,937, Robert Hudziak, Axel Ullrich, Brian M. Fendly, IN
VIVO TUMOR DETECTION ASSAY, Interference No. 105,266, final judgment
adverse to the patentees rendered, September 30, 2005, as to claims 1-5, 7,
9.

   Patent No. 5,725,856, Robert M. Hudziak, Axel Ullrich, Brian M. Fendly,
MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES DIRECTED TO THE HER 2 RECEPTOR, Interference No.
105,266, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered, September 30,
2005, as to claims 1-12, 14-26.

   Patent No. 5,770,195, Robert M. Hudziak, H. Michael Shepard, Axel
Ullrich, Brian M. Fendly, MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES DIRECTED TO THE HER2
RECEPTOR, Interference No. 105,266, final judgment adverse to the patentees
rendered, September 30, 2005, as to claims 1-28 and 31-36.

   Patent No. 5,720,954, Robert M. Hudziak, H. Michael Shepard, Axel
Ullrich, Brian M. Fendly, MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES DIRECTED TO THE HER 2
RECEPTOR, Interference No. 105,266, final judgment adverse to the patentees
rendered, September 30, 2005, as to claims 1-21 and 23-35.

   Patent No. 4,753,894, Arthur E. Frankel, David B. Ring, Michael J.
Bjorn, MONOCLONAL ANTI-HUMAN BREAST CANCER ANTIBODIES, Interference No.
105,267, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered, September 30,
2005, as to claims 1-7, 9-12 and 20-29.

   Patent No. 5,169,774, Arthur E. Frankel, David B. Ring, Walter Laird,
MONOCLONAL ANTI-HUMAN BREAST CANCER ANTIBODIES, Interference No. 105,267,
final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered, September 30, 2005, as to
claim 1.

   Patent No. 6,054,561, David B. Ring, ANTIGEN-BINDING SITES OF ANTIBODY
MOLECULES SPECIFIC FOR CANCER ANTIGENS, Interference No. 105,267, final
judgment adverse to the patentees rendered, September 30, 2005, as to
claims 1-31.

   Patent No. 5,462,983, Steven Bloembergen, Ramani Narayan, BIODEGRADABLE
MOLDABLE PRODUCTS AND FILMS COMPRISING BLENDS OF STARCH ESTERS AND
POLYESTERS, Interference No. 103,952, final judgment adverse to the
patentees rendered, June 11, 2002, as to claims 1-13.

   Patent No. 6,183,091, Kristina M. Johnson, Gary D. Sharp, COLOR IMAGING
SYSTEMS AND METHODS, Interference No. 105,310, final judgment adverse to
the patentees rendered, May 26, 2006, as to claims 30, 31, 33, 34, 43, 44,
48, 49, 50, 53, 56, and 58.

   Patent No. 6,465,697, David Palmer, Pui Kwan Wong, CATALYST  PROMOTOR
FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF POLYPHENOLS, Interference No. 105,309, final
judgment adverse to the patentees rendered, June 15, 2006, as to claims
1-55.

   Patent No. 4,885,155, John J. Parran, Nabil Y. Sakkab, ANTICALCULUS
COMPOSITIONS USING PYROPHOSPHATE SALTS, Interference No. 103,571, final
judgment adverse to the patentees rendered, December 19, 2003, as to claims
1-10.


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