United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 26 March 2002

                      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. 5,389,098, Minoru Tsuruta; Shiro Bito; Shuichi
Kimura; Akito Mukaizawa; Seiji Kuramoto; Tsuyoshi Tsukagoshi; Akio
Nakata; Akihiro Taguchi; Kazuhiko Oozeki, Hitoshi Mizno; Shuichi
Takayama; Yoshinao Oaki; Keisuke Saito, Toshihiko Suzuta, SURGICAL
DEVICE FOR STAPLING AND/OR FASTENING BODY TISSUES, Interference No.
103,950, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered August 17,
2001, as to claims 1 and 3.

   Patent No. 5,429,630, Chantelle M. Beal, Valerie V. Finch, Paul
J. Serbiak, ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND A METHOD OF REMOVING SAID ARTICLE
FROM AN UNDERGARMENT, Interference No. 103,951, final judgment adverse
to the patentees rendered September 28, 2001, as to claims 1-27.

   Patent No. 5,416,110, Horst Wingert, Hubert Sauter, Eberhard
Ammermann, Gisela Lorenz, BENZYL DERVIATIVES AND PESTICIDES CONTAINING
THEM, Interference No. 103,746, final judgment adverse to the patentees
rendered February 12, 2002, as to claims 1-6, 8-23 and 30.

   Patent No. 5,401,267, Laurie Couture-Dorschner, David R. King,
Ann M. Nichols, Thomas H. Gilman, Valerie V. Finch, ABSORBENT ARTICLE
HAVING ENHANCED WICKING CAPACITY, Interference No. 104,222, final
judgment adverse to the patentees rendered September 28, 2001, as to
claim 37.

   Patent No. 5,499,733, Herbert E. Litvak, OPTICAL TECHNIQUES OF
MEASURING ENDPOINT DURING THE PROCESSING OF MATERIAL LAYERS IN AN
OPTICALLY HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT, Interference No. 103,751, final judgment
adverse to the patentee rendered February 25, 2002, as to claims 5-7,
8(5), 8(6), 9(6), 13 and 19.

   Patent No. 5,766,605, Ira Sanders, Christopher M. Shaari,
TREATMENT OF AUTONOMIC NERVE DYSFUNCTION WITH BOTULINUM TOXIN,
Interference No. 104,688, final judgment adverse to the patentees
rendered February 26, 2002, as to claims 1 and 13-18.