United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 27 Nov 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. 6,780,973, Andrew D. Luster, Philip Leder, Marc Rothenberg,
Eduardo Garcia, EOTAXIN: AN EOSINOPHIL CHEMOATTRACTANT, Interference No.
105,465, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered May 7, 2007, as
to claims 3, 8, and 9.

Patent No. 6,296,673, Bernard D. Santarsiero, Raymond C. Stevens, Peter G.
Schultz, Joseph M. Jaklevic, Derek T. Yegian, Earl Cornell, Robert A.
Nordmeyer, Jian Jin, William F. Kolbe, Arthur L Jones, Donald C. Uber,
METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING ARRAY MICROCRYSTALLIZATIONS,
Interference No. 105,403, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered
February 22, 2007, as to claims 1-59.

Patent No. 6,630,006, Bernard D. Santarsiero, Raymond C. Stevens, Peter G.
Schultz, Joseph M. Jaklevic, Derek T. Yegian, Earl W. Cornell, Robert A.
Nordmeyer, METHOD FOR SCREENING MICROCRYSTALLIZATIONS FOR CRYSTAL
FORMATION, Interference No. 105,403, final judgment adverse to the
patentees rendered February 22, 2007, as to claims 1-84.

Patent No. 6,911,056, Bernard D. Santarsiero, Raymond C. Stevens, Peter G.
Schultz, Joseph M. Jaklevic, Derek T. Yegian, Earl W. Cornell, Robert A.
Nordmeyer, METHOD FOR DIFFRACTING CRYSTALS FORMED BY SUBMICROLITER
CRYSTALLIZATION EXPERIMENTS, Interference No. 105,403, final judgment
adverse to the patentees rendered February 22, 2007, as to claims 1-62.

Patent No. 6,932,845, Bernard D. Santarsiero, Raymond C. Stevens, Peter G.
Schultz, Joseph M. Jaklevic, Derek T. Yegian, Earl W. Cornell, Robert A.
Nordmeyer, METHOD FOR PERFORMING SUBMICROLITER CRYSTALLIZATION EXPERIMENTS,
Interference No. 105,403, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered
February 22, 2007, as to claims 1-118.

Patent No. 6,951,575, Bernard D. Santarsiero, Raymond C. Stevens, Peter G.
Schultz, Joseph M. Jaklevic, Derek T. Yegian, Earl W. Cornell, Robert A.
Nordmeyer, METHOD FOR PERFORMING HIGH DENSITY SUBMICROLITER CRYSTALLIZATION
EXPERIMENTS, Interference No. 105,403, final judgment adverse to the
patentees rendered February 22, 2007, as to claims 1-42.

Patent No. 6,767,896, J. Michael McIntosh, Baldomero M. Olivera, Lourdes J.
Cruz, Gloria P. Corpuz, Robert M. Jones, James E. Garrett, CONOTOXIN
PEPTIDES, Interference No. 105,492, final judgment adverse to the patentees
rendered August 17, 2007, as to claims 1-6, 11, 13-20, and 22.

Patent No. 6,422,464, Steven N. Terranova, FUEL DISPENSING SYSTEM PROVIDING
CUSTOMER PREFERENCES, Interference No. 105,407, final judgment adverse to
the patentees rendered August 23, 2007, as to claims 1-33.

Patent No. 5,593,666, Ted P. McDonald, METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR
TREATING THROMBOCYTOPENIA, Interference No. 104,544, final judgment adverse
to the patentees rendered May 17, 2004, as to claims 1-27.

                                                          CRAIG R. FEINBERG
                                           Deputy Chief Trial Administrator
                                    Board of Patent Appeals & Interferences