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. 4,975,411, Gordon T. Danby, Charles E. Brukl, Lawrence A.
Minkoff, SUPERCONDUCTORS AND METHODS OF MAKING SAME, Interference No.
104,015, final judgment adverse to the patentee rendered April 22, 1999,
as to claims 1-17.

   Patent No. 4,841,325, Kunihisa Hoshino, (deceased), Chie Hoshino,
Yoshinari Hamanishi, Ken Utagawa, AUTOMATIC FOCUSING DEVICE FOR CAMERA,
Interference No. 103,208, final judgment adverse to the patentee
rendered September 30, 1998, as to claims 1-14.

   Patent No. 4,997,903, Masaya Okamoto, POLYCARBONATE-MADE OPTICAL
ARTICLE, Interference No. 103,272, final judgment adverse to the
patentee rendered September 30, 1998, as to claims 1-7.

   Patent No. 5,097,276, Masaru Midorikawa, INK JET HEAD CAPPING DEVICE,
Interference No. 103,736, final judgment adverse to the patentee
rendered May 12, 1997, as to claims 1-11.

   Patent No. 5,109,958, Kunio Kato, Yasumasa Iida, Takenobu Honda,
Kazuhiko Sugita, Shinji Yamasaki, BRAKE UNIT FOR AN ELEVATOR HOIST
APPARATUS, Interference No. 103,501, final judgment adverse to the
patentees rendered January 23, 1997, as to claims 1-3.

   Patent No. 5,242,044, Shoichi Yamaguchi, Hisashi Shimizu, APPARATUS FOR
ROTATING AND CONVEYING AN ARTICLE TO BE PAINTED ON COATING LINE,
Interference No. 103,705, final judgment adverse to the patentees
rendered February 4, 1997, as to claim 1.

   Patent No. 5,315,636, Rajendra Patel, PERSONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS
SYSTEM, Interference No. 104,166, final judgment adverse to the patentee
rendered February 3, 1999, as to claims 11, 13, 14, 18, 19 and 25.

   Patent No. 5,382,743, James H. Beech, Jr., Roland B. Saeger, Robert A.
Ware, SKELETAL ISOMERIZATION OF N-PENTENES USING ZSM-35 IN THE PRESENCE
OF HYDROGEN, Interference No. 103,902, final judgment adverse to the
patentees rendered March 4, 1999, as to claims 1-13.

   Patent No. 5,385,915, Joseph D. Buxbaum, Samuel E. Gandy, Paul
Greengard, TREATMENT OF AMYLOIDOSIS ASSOCIATED WITH ALZHEIMER DISEASE
USING MODULATORS OF PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION, Interference No. 103,915,
final judgment adverse to the patentee rendered April 19, 1999, as to
claims 33, 35 and 36.

   Patent No. 5,512,436, Timothy Stone, ENHANCEMENT OF POLYNUCLEOTIDE
HYBRIDIZATION, Interference No. 103,849, final judgment adverse to the
patentee rendered January 30, 1998, as to claims 1-14.

   Patent No. 5,697,929, Phillip A. Mellinger, SELF-LIMITING SET SCREW FOR
USE WITH SPINAL IMPLANT SYSTEMS, Interference No. 104,246, final
judgment adverse to the patentee rendered April 27, 1999, as to claims
1-14 and 15-21.

                                                            WANDA M. TIGNER
                                           Sup'v Legal Instruments Examiner
                                    Board of Patent Appeals & Interferences
                                                             (703) 308-9797