United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 28 June 2005

                       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. 4,940,838, Robert A. Schilperoort, Andreas Hoekema,
Paul J. J. Hooykaas, PROCESS FOR THE INCORPORATION OF FOREIGN DNA INTO
THE GENOME OF DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS, Interference No. 102,924, final
judgment adverse to the patentees rendered March 2, 2004, as to claim 12.

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