United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 26 August 2003

                       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. 6,391,430, Eric Edward Fullerton, Bruce David
Terris, Dieter Klaus Weller, PATTERNED MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIA WITH
DISCRETE MAGNETIC REGIONS SEPARATED BY REGIONS OF ANTIFERROMAGNETICALLY
COUPLED FILMS, Interference No. 105,110, final judgment adverse to the
patentees rendered July 23, 2003, as to claims 1-5 & 8-12.