United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 14 March 2006

                       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. 6,153,705, Pascale Corpart, Dominique Charmot, Samir
Z. Zard, Thibaud Biadatti, Daniel Michelet, METHOD FOR BLOCK POLYMER
SYNTHESIS BY CONTROLLED RADICAL POLYMERISATION, Interference
No.105,314, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered, December
12, 2005, as to claims 1-7, 11, 12, 18, 19, 21-23.

Patent No. 5,981,528, Michael Barry Gravestock, ANTIBIOTIC
OXAZOLIDINONE DERIVATIVES, Interference No.105,273, final judgment
adverse to the patentees rendered, October 11, 2005, as to claims 1-6, 8.

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