United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 22 February 2005

                       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. 6,414,133, Jeanne Dietz-Band, Wang-Ting Hsieh, John
F. Connaugton, MULTIPLE FUSION PROBES, Interference No. 105,208, final
judgment adverse to the patentees rendered December 22, 2004, as to
claims 1-3, 5-12, 14-19.

   Patent No. 6,114,264, John F. Krumwiede, Anthony V. Longobardo,
Larry J. Shelestak, GRAY GLASS COMPOSITION, Interference No. 105,147,
final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered December 22, 2004, as
to claims 1-35.

   Patent No. 6,045,767, Xiao Liu, Meng Zhu, CHARGE FOR VERTICAL
BOAT GROWTH PROCESS AND USE THEREOF, Interference No. 105,237, final
judgment adverse to the patentees rendered December 20, 2004, as to
claims 1-8.

   Patent No. 5,701,940, James A. Ford, Don L. Bertva, James M.
Kennedy, Ronald L. Presdorf, CELLULAR SHADE, Interference No. 104,328,
final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered September 30, 2004, as
to claims 1-34.

   Patent No. 5,692,550, James A. Ford, Don L. Bertva, James M.
Kennedy, Ronald L. Presdorf, CELLULAR SHADE MATERIAL, Interference No.
104,329, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered September 30,
2004, as to claims 1-47.

   Patent No. 5,914,392, Phillip R. Hawkins, Lynn E. Murry,
ANTIBODIES TO A NOVEL TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLORPROTEINASES,
Interference No. 105,177, final judgment adverse to the patentees
rendered March 11, 2004, as to claim 1.

   Patent No. 5,884,417, J. R. Jocelyn Pate, MICROWAVE-ASSISTED
SEPARATIONS USING VOLATILES, Interference No. 104,692, final judgment
adverse to the patentee rendered August 21, 2003, as to claims 1-15.

                                                            WANDA M. TIGNER
                                     Supervisory Legal Instruments Examiner
                                    Board of Patent Appeals & Interferences