United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 02 January 2007

                      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. 5,976,856, Kazuhiko Maruta, Michio Kubota, Toshiyuki
Sugimoto, RECOMBINANT THERMOSTABLE ENZYME WHICH FORMS NON-REDUCING
SACCHARIDE FROM REDUCING AMYLACEOUS SACCHARIDE, Interference No.
105,447, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered, August 9,
2006, as to claim 1. 

Patent No. 6,090,368, Hossein Zia, Thomas E. Needham, Muhammad
Quadir, PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS FOR INTRANASAL SPRAY ADMINISTRATION
OF KETOROLAC TROMETHAMINE, Interference No. 105,395, final judgment
adverse to the patentees rendered, July 17, 2006, as to claims 1-4. 

Patent No. 6,096,539, Bruce Charles Gomes, Garrett M. Kasof,
Judith Caroline Prosser, PROTEIN ACTIVATOR OF APOPTOSIS, Interference
No. 105,382, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered, April 4,
2006, as to claims 1, 2, and 5-11. 

Patent No. 6,287,473, Shunong Yang, William F McCoy, Anthony W
Dallmier, STABLE OXIDIZING BROMINE FORMULATIONS, METHOD OF MANUFACTURE
AND USES THEREOF FOR BIOFOULING CONTROL, Interference No. 105,230,
final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered, September 29, 2005,
as to claims 1-13. 

Patent No. 6,370,061, Santosh K. Yachareni, Kazuhiro Kurihara,
Binh Q. Le, Michael S. C. Chung, CEILING TEST MODE TO CHARACTERIZE THE
THRESHOLD VOLTAGE DISTRIBUTION OF OVER PROGRAMMED MEMORY CELLS,
Interference No. 105,475, final judgment adverse to the patentees
rendered, August 23, 2006, as to claims 1-3. 

Patent No. 6,869,921, Tatsuya Koito, Keiji Hirano, Masayuki
Takashima, Kenichi Tokioka, Hidemitsu Aoki, STRIPPING COMPOSITION,
Interference No. 105,476, final judgment adverse to the patentees
rendered, July 31, 2006, as to claims 20-30. 
                                                          CRAIG R. FEINBERG
                                           Deputy Chief Trial Administrator
                                    Board of Patent Appeals & Interferences