United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 19 March 2002

                       Adverse Decision In Interference

   In the designated interference involving the following patents,
final decisions have been rendered that the respective patentees are
not entitled to patents containing the claims listed.

   Patent No. 5,505,030, William W. Michalcewiz, George C. Tunis,
III, Rikard K. Haraldsson, and Brock J. Vinton, COMPOSITE REINFORCED
STRUCTURES, Interference No. 104,548, final judgment adverse to the
patentees rendered February 13, 2002, as to claims 1, 2, 6, 8, 9, 13,
15-22, 25, 26, 28-30, 32, 36-39, and 43.

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