United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 01 October 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. 5,882,498, Valery Dubin, Takeshi Nogami, METHOD FOR
REDUCING OXIDATION OF ELECTROPLATING CHAMBER CONTACTS AND IMPROVING
UNIFORM ELECTROPLATING OF A SUBSTRATE, Interference No. 104,642, final
judgment adverse to the patentees rendered August 13, 2002, as to
claims 1-3 and 6-10.

   Patent No. 5,327,515, Dana Z. Anderson, Turan Erdogan, Victor
Mizrahi, METHOD FOR FORMING A BRAGG GRATING IN AN OPTICAL MEDIUM,
Interference No. 104,331, final judgment adverse to the patentees
rendered August 7, 2002 as to claims 1, 2 and 5-8.