United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 05 October 2004

                      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.5,884,417, J.R. Jocelyn Pare, MICROWAVE-ASSISTED
SEPARATIONS USING VOLATILES, Interference No. 104,692, final judgment
adverse to the patentee rendered August 21, 2003, as to claims 1-15.


   Patent No. 5,831,797, Mark J. Schaenzer, Lori G. Swanson, Gregory
S. Mowry, Lance E. Stover, SLIDER WITH MESA FOR OPTICAL DISC DATA
STORAGE SYSTEM, Interference No. 105,058, final judgment adverse to the
patentees rendered October 29, 2003, as to claims 1-15.

                                                            WANDA M. TIGNER
                                          Sup'v. Legal Instruments Examiner
                                    Board of Patent Appeals & Interferences