United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 18 January 2005

                      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. 6,197,182, ROBERT KAUFMAN, GARY C. DOWNES, DANIEL J.
GRAMAROSSA, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PLATING WAFERS, SUBSTRATES AND
OTHER ARTICLES, Interference No. 105,233, final judgment adverse to the
patentees rendered, November 19, 2004 as to claims 1-28. 

Patent No. 6,139,922, ALAIN E. KALOYEROS, BARRY C. ARKLES,
TANTALUM AND TANTALUM-BASED FLMS FORMED USING FLUORINE-CONTAINING
SOURCE PRECURSORS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME, Interference No.
105,161, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered, November 30,
2004 as to claims 1-19, 23-25. 

Patent No. 5,914,392, Phillip R. Hawkins, Lynn E. Murry,
ANTIBODIES TO A NOVEL TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASES,
Interference No. 105,177, final judgment adverse to the patentees
rendered March 11, 2004, as to claim 1. 

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
                                     Supervisory Legal Instruments Examiner
                                    Board of Patent Appeals & Interferences