United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 24 December 2002

                       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 patents containing the claims listed.

Patent No. 5,847,342, Yoshio Hattori, COMBINATION SWITCH APPARATUS
EQUIPPED WITH ROTARY CONNECTOR, Interference No. 104,793, final judgment
adverse to the patentee rendered October 25, 2002 as to claims 1 and 4-6.