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

                                    Errata

   "All reference to Patent No. D398,832 to T. L. Buck Buchanan
of Manhattan, NY for DRAPERY ROD BRACKET appearing in the Official
Gazette of September 29, 1998 should be deleted since no patent was
granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 6,996,477 to David A. Holcomb,
et al of Seattle, WA for HAND-HELD PROCESSOR appearing in the Official
Gazette of January 17, 2006 should be deleted since no patent was
granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 6,997,063 to Andreas Petr of
Germany, for APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR ABRASIVE FLUID FLOW METER
appearing in the Official Gazette of February 14, 2006 should be
deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 6,997,398 to Phillip J. Bouic,
et al of United Kingdom, for SECURITY CLIP FOR SPRAY GUN CONNECTOR
appearing in the Official Gazette of February 14, 2006 should be
deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to No. 6,997,895 to James D. Jacobson, et al
of Illinois, for METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLOSED-LOOP FLOW CONTROL
SYSTEM appearing in the Official Gazette of February 14, 2006 should be
deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 6,998,294 to David J. Corisis,
et al of Idaho, for METHODS FOR DESIGNING BOND PAD REROUTING ELEMENTS
FOR USE IN STAKCED SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE ASSEMBLIES AND FOR ASSEMBLING
SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES appearing in the Official Gazette of February 14,
2006 should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 6,998,330 to Katsutoshi Izumi,
et al of Japan, for MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR BURIED INSULATING
LAYER-TYPE SEMICONDUCTOR SILICON CARBIDE SUBSTRATE appearing in the
Official Gazette of February 14, 2006 should be deleted since no patent
was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 6,998,386 to Jing-Shan Hu, et al
of California, for VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR 2 AND METHOD OF
USE appearing in the Official Gazette of February 14, 2006 should be
deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 6,999,192 to Matthew K. Henry of
San Francisco, for METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING PAPER TO
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS appearing in the Official Gazette of February
14, 2006 should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 6,999,250 to Tsuyoshi Kaneko of
Shimosuwa-Machi, Japan for OPTICAL PART AND ITS MANUFACTURING METHOD
appearing in the Official Gazette of February 14, 2006 should be
deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 6,999,456 to Masahiro Takatori,
et al of Japan, for RECEPTION SYSTEM FOR REPLACING TRANSPORT PACKETS
appearing in the Official Gazette of February 14, 2006 should be
deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 6,999,475 to Wei Lin of Warren,
NJ for SERVICE INTERFACE FOR QOS-DRIVEN HPNA NETWORKS appearing in the
Official Gazette of February 14, 2006 should be deleted since no patent
was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 6,999,642 to Stephen R. Forrest,
et al of New Jersey for TWIN WAVEGUIDE BASED DESIGN FOR PHOTONIC
INTEGRATED CIRCUITS appearing in the Official Gazette of February 14,
2006 should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 6,999,712 to Takeshi Shintani,
et al of Kanagawa, Japan for CLEANING UNIT, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND
IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS appearing in the Official Gazette of February
14, 2006 should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 6,999,939 to York Eggleston, et
al of Baltimore, MD for SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCENTIVE PROGRAMS AND
AWARD FULFILLMENT appearing in the Official Gazette of February 14,
2006 should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 6,999,940 to Rajesh Vallabh of
Brighton, MA for AUTOMATED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MERCHANDIZE
TRANSACTIONS appearing in the Official Gazette of February 14, 2006
should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 6,999,951 to Nicholas Heard of
London, United Kingdom for METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING ONE OR
MORE STATISTICAL ESTIMATORS CUSTOMER BEHAVIOR appearing in the Official
Gazette of February 14, 2006 should be deleted since no patent was
granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 6,999,969 to Quentin J. Clark,
et al of Washington for STORAGE PLATFORM FOR ORGANIZING, SEARCHING, AND
SHARING DATA appearing in the Official Gazette of February 14, 2006
should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,000,038 to Richard E. Perego,
et al of California, for MEMORY SYSTEM AND DEVICE WITH SERIALIZED DATA
TRANSFER appearing in the Official Gazette of February 14, 2006 should
be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,000,217 to Akio Misaka, et al
of Japan, for METHOD FOR PLANNING LAYOUT FOR LSI PATTERN, METHOD FOR
FORMING LSI PATTERN AND METHOD FOR GENERATING MASK DATA FOR LSI
appearing in the Official Gazette of February 14, 2006 should be
deleted since no patent was granted."