United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 18 April 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. 5,079,159, Randal J. Kaufman, METHOD FOR MAKING
TISSUE PLASMIMOGEN ACTIVATOR, Interference No. 103,086, final judgment
adverse to the patentees rendered, April 11, 2005, as to claim 1.

   Patent No. 6,649,326, Douglas C. Allan, Nicholas F. Borrelli,
Charlene M. Smith, Robert W. Sparrow, PHOTOLITHOGRAPHIC METHOD AND UV
TRANSMITTING FLUORIDE CRYSTALS WITH MINIMIZED SPATIAL DISPERSION,
Interference No. 105,316, final judgment adverse to the patentees
rendered, January 12, 2006, as to claims Counts 1, 2 and 3.

   Patent No. 6,621,742, Shigekazu Yamada, SYSTEM FOR PROGRAMMING
A FLASH MEMORY DEVICE, Interference No. 105,386, final judgment adverse
to the patentees rendered, February 22, 2006, as to claims 1-6.

   Patent No. 5,562,857, Joachim Werner, Scott A. Kane, Charles
Mortimer, Herman P. Doerge, Eric F. Boonstra, AZEOTROPE-LIKE
COMPOSITIONS OF 1,1,1,3,3-PENTAFLUOROPROPANE AND 2-METHYL BUTANE,
Interference No. 105,247, final judgment adverse to the patentees
rendered, January 11, 2006, as to claims 1-7.

   Patent No. 6,410,358, Kazuto Noritake, Toshifumi Yamaji,
MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR REFLECTION TYPE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY,
Interference No. 105,357, final judgment adverse to the patentees
rendered, January 13, 2006, as to claims 1-9.

   Patent No. 6,689,219, Michael Antoine Birmingham, APPARATUS AND
METHOD FOR DISPENSING VISCOUS LIQUID MATERIAL, Interference No.
105,328, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered, January 13,
2006, as to claims 1-15.

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