United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 04 December 2001

                       Adverse Decision in Interference

   In the designated interferences involving the following
patents, final decisions have been rendered that the respective
patentees are not entitled to a patent containing the claims listed.

   Patent No. 5,498,631, Sherwood L. Gorbach, Barry R. Goldin,
Herman Adlercreutz, METHOD FOR TREATMENT OF MENOPAUSAL AND PREMENSTRUAL
SYMPTOMS, Interference No. 104,576, final judgment adverse to the
patentees rendered November 1, 2001, as to claims 1-12.


                                              WANDA M. TIGNER, Sup'v. Legal
                                                       Instruments Examiner
                                    Board of Patent Appeals & Interferences
                                                             (703) 308-9797