Erratum - OG Date: 29 April 2003

United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 29 April 2003
                                    Errata

   "All reference to Patent No. D 471,038 to Shannon E. Kelterborn of
Dana Point, CA for SPRING FOOT appearing in the Official        Gazette of
March 04, 2003 should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. D 471,098 to Iris Davis Gerstein, et al
of Rockville MD for ANTIPERSPIRANT AND/OR DEODORANT PRODUCT appearing in
the Official Gazette of March 04, 2003 should be deleted since no patent
was granted."

   "All reference to Patent D 471,251 to Howard R. Harrison of
Mississauga, Canada for MODULAR FAUCET MOUNT WATER FILTER appearing in
the Official Gazette of March 04, 2003 should be deleted since no
patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 6,526,616 to Lawrence A. Blaustein, et al
of Moreland Hills, OH for ELECTRIC TOOTHBRUSH appearing in the Official
Gazette of March 04, 2003 should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 6,526,817 to James Michael Kerns
of Trenton, MI for LEAN ENGINE WITH BRAKE SYSTEM appearing in the
Official Gazette of March 04, 2003 should be deleted since no patent
was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 6,527,083 to Alain Cheval of
Lagny-Sur-Mare, France for SAFETY DEVICE appearing in the Official
Gazette of Macrh 04, 2003 should be deleted since no patent was
granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 6,527,380 to Kenji Kitabatake, et al
of Kawasaki-Shi, Japan for INK CONTAINER, VALVE UNIT FOR INK
CONTAINER, INK JET HEAD CARTRIDGE HAVING INK CONTAINER AND INK JET
RECORDING APPARATUS appearing in the Official Gazette of March 04, 2003
should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 6,527,453 to David L. Dean, et
al of Hickory, NC for WINDOWLESS, RECTANGULAR FERRULE IN A
PRE-ASSEMBLED MULTIFIBER CONNECTOR AND ASSOCIATED ASSEMBLY METHOD
appearing in the Official Gazette of March 04, 2003 should be deleted
since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 6,527,589 to Takeshi Nishimura
of Santa Clara, CA for MULTI-CARD CARD CONNECTOR FOR MULTI-TYPE CARDS
appearing in the Official Gazette of March 04, 2003 should be deleted
since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 6,527,714 to Gust H. Bardy of
Seattle, WA for AUTOMATED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING A PATIENT
STATUS REFERENCE BASELINE appearing in the Official Gazette of March
04, 2003 should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 6,527,901 to Dieter Backhaus of
Germany, for TECHNIQUE FOR PARTIALLY JOINING COPPER FOILS AND SEPARATOR
SHEETS appearing in the Official Gazette of March 04, 2003 should be
deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 6,527,936 to Linlin Chen of
Kalispell, Montana for APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ELECTROLYTICALLY
DEPOSITING A METAL ON A WORKPIECE appearing in the Official Gazette of
March 04, 2003 should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 6,527,944 to Kunihiko Mizuno, et al
of Japan, for METHOD OF ISOMERIZING LIGHT HYDROCARBON OIL appearing
in the Official Gazette of March 04, 2003 should be deleted since no
patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 6,528,083 to Horst Georg Zerbe, et al
of Green Pond, NJ for WATER SOLUBLE FILM FOR ORAL ADMINISTRATION
WITH INSTANT WETTABILITY appearing in the Official Gazette of March 04,
2003 should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 6,528,282 to Gavril W. Pasternak, et al
of New York, NY for NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES ENCODING A KOR3 KAPPA OPIOID
RECEPTOR AND THE METHODS OF PRODUCING THE ENCODED RECEPTOR appearing in
the Official Gazette of March 04, 2003 should be deleted since no patent
was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 6,528,406 to Tongbi Jiang, et al
of Idaho, for BALL GRID ARRAY appearing in the Official Gazette of
March 04, 2003 should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 6,528,537 to Kenneth Darrell Berlin, et al
of Stillwater, Oklahoma for HETEROAROTINOIDS CONTAINING UREA OR THIOUREA
LINKER appearing in the Official Gazette of March 04, 2003 should be
deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 6,528,608 to Stephen Edward Cray, et al
of United Kingdom, for SILICONE RELEASE COATING COMPOSITIONS appearing in
the Official Gazette of March 04, 2003 should be deleted since no patent
was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 6,528,638 to John Ford, et al of
San Mateo, CA for NOVEL INTERLEUKIN-1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST AND USES
THEREOF appearing in the Official Gazette of March 04, 2003 should be
deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 6,528,906 to Munenori Watanabe
of Tokyo, Japan for HIGH-THRUST LINEAR MOTOR AND METHOD OF PRODUCING
THE SAME appearing in the Official Gazette of March 04, 2003 should be
deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 6,529,069 to Nagendra Krishnapura, et al
of Hoboken, NJ for CIRCUITS WITH DYNAMIC BIASING appearing in the Official
Gazette of March 04, 2003 should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 6,529,343 to Sumio Kuroda, et al
of Kawasaki-Shi Japan for A MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING TRACKING
CONTROL AREA FORMED ADJACENT DATA TRACKS appearing in the Official
Gazette of March 04, 2003 should be deleted since no patent was
granted."