United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 30 April 2002

                      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. 5,742,543, Albert Fazio, FLASH MEMORY DEVICE HAVING
A PAGE MODE OF OPERATION, Interference No. 104,493, final judgment
adverse to the patentee rendered March 12, 2002, as to claims 17 and
18.

   Patent No. 5,117,839, Creg W. Dance, EXCHANGEABLE FIXED WIRE
CATHETER, Interference No. 103,379, final judgment adverse to the
patentee rendered June 20, 2000, as to claims 1-4 and 8.