United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 10 December 2002

                       Adverse Decision in Interference

   In the designated interference involving the following patent,
final decisions have been rendered that the respective patentee is not
entitled to patents containing the claims listed.

Patent No. 4,943,680, Thomas M. Ellison, Robert A. Winton, METHOD
OF MAKING A DECORATIVE SHEET MATERIAL SIMULATING THE APPEARANCE OF A
BASE COAT/CLEAR COAT PAINT FINISH, Interference No. 103,782, final
judgment adverse to the patentees rendered September 10, 2002, as to
claims 1-10.
                                              WANDA M. TIGNER, Sup'v. Legal
                                                       Instruments Examiner
                                    Board of Patent Appeals & Interferences
                                                             (703) 308-9797