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. 5,048,812, John Holmes, SHEET FEEDING APPARATUS,
Interference No. 103,315, final judgment adverse to the patentee
rendered April 27, 2001, as to claims 1-46.

   Patent No. 5,141,856, Franklin D. Collins, Drzislav Mismer,
Christine Ko, EXPRESSION OF PURIFIED CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR,
Interference No. 103,348, final judgment adverse to the patentees
rendered June 21, 2001, as to claims 7, 8 and 10.

   Patent No. 5,358,864, Henriette C. Van Den Broeck, Leendert H.
DeGraaff, Jan D. R. Hille, Albert J. J. Van Ooyen, Jacob Visser,
Abraham Harder, CLONING AND EXPRESSION OF XYLANASE GENES FROM FUNGAL
ORIGIN, Interference No. 103,637, final judgment adverse to the
patentees rendered July 10, 2001, as to claims 1-19.

   Patent No. 5,503,059, David R. Pacholok, VEHICLE DISABLING
DEVICE AND METHOD, Interference No. 103,830, final judgment adverse to
the patentee rendered January 26, 2001, as to claims 1-53.


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