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. 4,675,173, Kenneth J. Widder, METHOD OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE
IMAGING OF THE LIVER AND SPLEEN, Interference No. 103,590, final
judgment adverse to the patentee rendered November 15, 1996, as to
claims 1-14.

Patent No. 4,797,911, Alcksander Szlam, James W. Crooks, Jr., Curtis G.
Marks, CUSTOMER ACCOUNT ONLINE SERVICING SYSTEM, Interference No.
103,691, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered November 20,
1996, as to claim 53.

Patent No. 4,849,210, Kenneth J. Widder, MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING OF
LIVER AND SPLEEN WITH SUPERPARAMAGNETIC CONTRAST AGENTS, Interference
No. 103,714, final judgment adverse to the patentee rendered November
22, 1996, as to claims 1-7.

Patent No. 4,977,357, Karen P. Shrier, OVERVOLTAGE PROTECTION DEVICE AND
MATERIAL, Interference No. 103,573, final judgment adverse to the
patentee rendered September 30, 1996, as to claims 1-4, 10-12 and 15-20.

Patent No. 5,206,375, Ernst Schefczik, Karl-Heinz Etzbach, Heinz
Eilingsfeld, THIOPHENE DERIVATIVES, Interference No. 103,223, final
judgment adverse to the patentees rendered December 17, 1996, as to
claim 3.

Patent No. 5,217,706, Raghavan Rajagopalan, Rebecca A. Wallacc,
Muthunadar P. Periasamy, COMPLEXES AND COMPOSITIONS FOR MAGNETIC
RESONANCE IMAGING, Interference No. 103,684, final judgment adverse to
the patentees rendered January 15, 1997, as to claims 1-23.

Patent No. 5,227,038, Richard E. Smalley, Robert E. Haufler, ELECTRIC
ARC PROCESS FOR MAKING FULLERENES, Interference No. 103,527, final
judgment adverse to the patentees rendered December 18, 1996, as to
claims 10-12 and 14-15.

Patent No. 5,290,647, Junji Miyazaki, Hitoshi Nagata, PHOTOMASK AND
METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A PHOTOMASK, Interference No. 103,649, final
judgment adverse to the patentees rendered December 6, 1996, as to
claims 1-9.

Patent No. 5,290,807, Moses J. Folkman, Donald Ingber, METHOD FOR
REGRESSING ANGIOGENESIS USING O-SUBSTITUTED FUMAGILLOL DERIVATIVES,
Interference No. 103,500, final judgment adverse to the patentees
rendered November 22, 1996, as to claims 1-3 and 5.

                                            OLIVIA M. DUVALL, Sup'v Legal
                                                     Instruments Examiner
                                                  Board of Patent Appeals
                                                          & Interferences
                                                           (703) 308-9846