United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 14 February 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. 5,644,539, HajimeYamagami, Kouichi Terada,Yosshihiro
Hayashi, Takashi Tsunehiro, Kunihiro Katayama, Kenichi Khaki, Takeshi
Furuno, STORAGE DEVICE EMPLOYING A FLASH MEMORY, Interference No.
104,760, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered May 29, 2003,
as to claims 9, 14.

Patent No. 5,694,503, Debra A. Fleming, David W. Johnson Jr.,
Paul J. Lemaire, ARTICLE COMPRISING A TEMPERATURE COMPENSATED OPTICAL
FIBER REFRACTIVE INDEX GRATING, Interference No. 105,253, final
judgment adverse to the patentees rendered Oct .14, 2005, as to claims
1-13.

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