United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 04 May 2004
Adverse Decision in Interference
In the designated interference involving the following patent,
a final decision has been rendered that the respective patentee is not
entitled to the patent containing the claims listed.
Patent No. 5,195,564, Robert Spalding, GASOLINE DISPENSER WITH
VAPOR RECOVERY SYSTEM, Interference No. 104,699, final judgment adverse
to the patentee rendered March 7, 2003, as to claims 1-8.
WANDA M. TIGNER
Sup'v Legal
Instruments Examiner
Board of Patent Appeals & Interferences