United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 31 May 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. 5,466,861, Marcia I. Dawson, James F. Cameron, Peter
D. Hobbs, Ling Jong, Magnus Pfahl, Xiao-Kun Zhang, Jurgen M. Lehmann,
BRIDGED BICYCLIC AROMATIC COMPOUNDS AND THEIR USE IN MODULATING GENE
EXPRESSION OF RETINOID RECEPTORS, Interference No. 105,256, final
judgment adverse to the patentees rendered April 7, 2005, as to claims
1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 13.

Patent No. 5,837,725, Marcia I. Dawson, James F. Cameron, Peter
D. Hobbs, Ling Jong, Magnus Pfahl, Xiao-Kun Zhang, Jurgen M. Lehmann,
BRIDGED BICYCLIC AROMATIC COMPOUNDS AND THEIR USE IN MODULATING GENE
EXPRESSION OF RETINOID RECEPTORS, Interference No. 105,256, final
judgment adverse to the patentees rendered April 7, 2005, as to claims
1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 13, 14, 15.

Patent No. 6,740,093 B2, Stephen Hochschuler, Wesley Johnson,
Kevin L. Nickels, Thomas R. Hektner, Larry Wales, Tyler Lipschultz,
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TREATING A VERTEBRAL BODY, Interference No.
105,252, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered April 12,
2005, as to claims 1-5.
                                                            WANDA M. TIGNER
                                    Supervisory Legal Inystruments Examiner
                                    Board of Patent Appeals & Interferences