Errata "All reference to Patent No. 5,920,334 to Albert Zur of Israel, for APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CREATING AN IMAGE BY APPLYING VOLTAGE SIGNALS AND NON-VISIBLE CHARGES TO A DIELECTRIC ELEMENT appearing in the Official Gazette of July 06, 1999 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 5,932,901 to Kazuo Itabashi, et al of Japan, for SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WITH SELF-ALIGNED CONTACT AND ITS MANUFACTURE appearing in the Official Gazette of August 03, 1999 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 5,969,522 to James M. Daughton, et al of Edina, Minnesota for MAGNETIC FIELD SENSOR WITH A PLURALITY OF MAGNETORESISTIVE THIN-FILM LAYERS HAVING AN END AT A COMMON SURFACE appearing in the Official Gazette of October 19, 1999 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 5,988,235 to Kuno Lemke, et al of Germany, for APPARATUS FOR STERILIZATION, FILLING AND SEALING PACKAGING CONTAINERS appearing in the Official Gazette of November 23, 1999 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,000,150 to Gerald L. Depies of Wisconsin, for HYDRAULIC AND ELECTRICAL CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR USE WITH VEHICLE ACCESSORY UNITS appearing in the Official Gazette of December 14, 1999 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,000,826 to H. Van Dyke Parunak, et al of Ann Arbor, Michigan for COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM FOR MARKET-BASED CONSTRAINT OPTIMIZATION appearing in the Official Gazette of December 14, 1999 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,004,350 to Gary K. Michelson of California, for LORDOTIC INTERBODY SPINAL FUSION IMPLANTS appearing in the Official Gazette of December 21, 1999 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,004,935 to Vladislav I. Deigin, et al of Canada, for NOVEL PEPTIDE, A METHOD FOR ITS PREPARATION AND A PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION CONTAINING THE PEPTIDE appearing in the Official Gazette of December 21, 1999 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,005,808 to Daniel Sobek, et al of California, for BIASING METHOD AND STRUCTURE FOR REDUCING BAND-TO-BAND AND/OR AVALANCHE CURRENTS DURING THE ERASE OF FLASH MEMORY DEVICES appearing in the Official Gazette of December 21, 1999 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,006,820 to Colin McCullough, et al of Minneapolis, Minnesota for METHOD OF MAKING FIBER REINFORCED ALUMINUM MATRIX COMPOSITE WIRE appearing in the Official Gazette of December 28, 1999 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,007,768 to Shivaji Purwar of Connecticut, for NOVEL STERILIZATION PROCESS FOR PHARMACEUTICAL SUSPENSIONS appearing in the Official Gazette of December 28, 1999 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,007,842 to Ram Dutta Pathak, et al of England, for PAROXETINE TABLETS AND PROCESS TO PREPARE THEM appearing in the Official Gazette of December 28, 1999 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,007,844 to Richard S. Sackler, et al of Connecticut for TREATING PAIN BY ADMINISTERING 24 HOURS OPIOID FORMULATIONS EXHIBITING RAPID RISE OF DRUG LEVEL appearing in the Official Gazette of December 28, 1999 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,008,122 to Chuanbin Pan, et al of California, for SILICON-RICH BLOCK COPOLYMERS TO ACHIEVE UNBALANCED VIAS appearing in the Official Gazette of December 28, 1999 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,008,200 to Arthur M. Krieg of Iowa, for IMMUNOMODULATORY OLIGONUCLEOTIDES appearing in the Official Gazette of December 28, 1999 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,008,504 to Yasuhiko Takemura, et al of Japan, for THIN FILM SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT appearing in the Official Gazette of December 28, 1999 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,009,055 to Yasuhiro Hayashi of Japan, for SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT HAVING A VOLTAGE CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR CAPABLE OF CONTINUOUSLY CHANGING THE CENTER FREQUENCY IN ACCORDANCE WITH A CONTROL VOL- TAGE appearing in the Official Gazette of December 28, 1999 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,009,171 to Mark Louis Ciacelli, et al of New York for APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROTECTING COPYRIGHT DATA WITHIN A COMPUTER SYSTEM appearing in the Officail Gazette of December 28, 1999 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,010,566 to Dirk Nemegeer, et al of Belgium, for PREPARATION OF BITUMINOUS CONCRETE COMPRISING WIRE PIECES appearing in the Official Gazette of January 04, 2000 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,010,794 to Hiroyuki Suzuki, et al of Japan, for MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIA FOR LONGITUDINAL RECORDING appearing in the Official Gazette of January 04, 2000 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,012,486 to Edward L. Rainwater, et al of Texas, for DUAL ISOLATION VALVE WITH RECTANGULAR FLOW PASSAGEWAYS appearing in the Official Gazette of January 11, 2000 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,012,879 to Nancy Uehlein-Proctor of Wales, Wisconsin for FEED SYSTEM FOR A DRILL PRESS appearing in the Official Gazette of January 11, 2000 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,013,751 to Tomoki Hiiro, et al of Japan, for PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF SILOXANE COPOLYMERS AND RESIN COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING THE SILOXANE COPOLYMERS PREPARED BY THE PROCESS appearing in the Official Gazette of January 11, 2000 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,014,242 to Michael Scalora of Alabama, for TRANSPARENT METALLO-DIELECTRIC PHOTONIC BAND GAP STRUCTURE appearing the Official Gazette of January 11, 2000 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,014,703 to Duane J. McCrory, et al of Pennsylvania for METHOD SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING PULL MODEL DATA COMMUNICATION appearing in the Official Gazette of January 11, 2000 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. RE 36,533 to Michel Fattouche, et al of Canada for MULTICODE DIRECT SEQUENCE SPREAD SPECTRUM appearing in the Official Gazette of January 25, 2000 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,017,271 to Shigeru Miyamoto of Japan, for THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS WITH ENHANCED AUTOMATIC AND USER POINT OF VIEW CONTROL appearing in the Official Gazette of January 25, 2000 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,018,226 to Thomas J. Dougherty, et al of Wisconsin for ADVANCED BATTERY CONTROLLER WITH STATE OF CHARGE CONTROL appearing in the Official Gazette of January 25, 2000 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. D 419,835 to Martha Frimer Cheslow of New Jersey for FOOD HOLDING DEVICE appearing in the Official Gazette of February 01, 2000 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. D 420,144 to Dennis A. Grubb of Arizona, for TUBULAR SKYLIGHT appearing in the Official Gazette of February 01, 2000 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. PP 11,195 to Franz Fruehwirth of California, for POINSETTIA PLANT NAMED '846' appearing in the Official Gazette of February 01, 2000 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,019,278 to Joseph P. Sagel of Texas, for TUBULAR CONTAINER HAVING AN OUTER SLEEVE AND AN INNER STORAGE BAG appearing in the Official Gazette of February 01, 2000 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,019,653 to Noritake Suzuki of Japan for METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ELECTRON-BEAM SOURCE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING SAME, AND ACTIVATION PROCESSING METHOD appearing in the Official Gazette of February 01, 2000 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,019,807 to William P. Wood of Golden Valley, Minnesota for METHOD FOR MAKING ABRASIVE GRAIN USING IMPREGNATION AND ABRASIVE ARTICLES appearing in the Official Gazette of February 01, 2000 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,019,875 to Timothy J. Renk, et al of New Mexico, for METHOD OF MODIFYING A SURFACE appearing in the Official Gazette of February 01, 2000 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,019,889 to Jack Stifelman, et al of Missouri, for IN-TANK FLUID FILTER WITH VALVE ASSEMBLY appearing in the Official Gazette of February 01, 2000 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,019,961 to John E. Barry, et al of New Hampshire for ANTIBIOTIC TOOTHPASTE appearing in the Official Gazette of February 01, 2000 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,020,454 to Masatoshi Aoyama, et al of Japan for POLYESTER POLYMERIZATION CATALYST A PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF AND A POLYESTER PRODUCTION METHOD USING SAID CATALYST appearing in the Official Gazette of February 01, 2000 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,021,441 to Christine M. Desnoyers, et al of New York for SYSTEM FOR OPTIMISTIC TRANSMISSION FLOW CONTROL INCLUDING RECEIVER DATA DISCARDS UPON INADEQUATE BUFFERING CONDITION appearing in the Official Gazette of February 01, 2000 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,021,744 to Zoran Valcic, et al of Chatswood, Aux for IGNITION INHIBITING GAS WATER HEATER AND CONTROLLER appearing in the Official Gazette of February 08, 2000 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,021,809 to Craig V. Rockwell of Minneapolis, Minnesota for PRESSURE REGULATOR APPARATUS appearing in the Official Gazette of February 08, 2000 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,021,814 to Kim N. Vu, et al of California, for MANIFOLD SYSTEM FOR ENABLING A DISTRIBUTION OF FLUIDS appearing in the Official Gazette of February 08, 2000 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,024,546 to Takeo Yajima of Japan for CHEMICAL SUPPLY SYSTEM appearing in the Official Gazette of February 15, 2000 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,024,989 to Francesco Banella, et al of Italy for PANETTONE-TYPE BAKERY DOUGH appearing in the Official Gazette of February 15, 2000 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,025,009 to Radha Iyengar, et al of Massachussettes for FAT SOLUBLE POLYMERS AND THEIR USE IN FOODS appearing in the Official Gazette of February 15, 2000 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,025,299 to Chikafumi Yokoyama, et al of Japan for CATALYTIC OXIDATIVE DEHYDROGENATION PROCESS AND CATALYST appearing in the Official Gazette of February 15, 2000 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,025,606 to Hisashi Ohtani, et al of Japan for ACTIVE MATRY DISPLAY appearing in the Official Gazette of February 15, 2000 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,025,749 to Yoshinori Okajima of Japan for INTERFACE CIRCUIT CAPABLE OF PREVENTING REFLECTED WAVES AND GLITCHES appearing in the Official Gazette of February 15, 2000 should be deleted since no patent was granted." "All reference to Patent No. 6,025,940 to David Milton, et al of Canada for WDM OPTICAL NETWORK WITH PASSIVE PASS-THOUGH AT EACH NODE appearing in the Official Gazette of February 15, 2000 should be deleted since no patent was granted."