United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 22 November 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. 5,427,929, Rodney M. Richards, Theodore Jones, David
L. Snitman, Gregory S. Brown, METHOD FOR REDUCING CARRYOVER
CONTAMINATION IN AN AMPLIFICATION PROCEDURE, Interference No. 105,257,
final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered June 10, 2005, as to
claims 1, 2 and 19-21.

Patent No. 5,650,302, Rodney M. Richards, Theodore Jones, Gregory
S. Brown, METHOD FOR REDUCING CARRYOVER CONTAMINATION IN AN
AMPLIFICATION PROCEDURE, Interference No. 105,258, final judgment
adverse to the patentees rendered June 10, 2005, as to claims 1 and 2.

Patent No. 5,876,976, Rodney M. Richards, Theodore Jones, David
L. Snitman, Gregory S. Brown, METHOD FOR REDUCING CARRYOVER
CONTAMINATION IN AN AMPLIFICATION PROCEDURE, Interference No. 105,259,
final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered June 10, 2005, as to
claims 1-4, 13, 14, 23 and 24.

Patent No. 6,037,152, Rodney M. Richards, Theodore Jones, Gregory
S. Brown, METHOD FOR REDUCING CARRYOVER CONTAMINATION IN AN
AMPLIFICATION PROCEDURE, Interference No. 105,260, final judgment
adverse to the patentees rendered June 10, 2005, as to claims 1, 8 and 9.

Patent No. 6,303,365, William Frank. Martin, Ruediger Hain,
Klaus-Guenther Tietjen, Marco Busch, Andreas S. Kloti, METHOD OF
DETERMINING ACTIVITY OF 1-DEOXY-D-XYLULOSE-5-PHOSPHATE REDUCTOISOMERASE
AND 1-DEOXY-D-XYLULOSE-5-PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE, Interference No. 105,300,
final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered May 27, 2005, as to
claims 1, 2 and 4-13.

Patent No. 5,427,020, Rodney M. Richards, Theodore Jones, David
L. Snitman, Gregory S. Brown, METHOD FOR REDUCING CARRYOVER
CONTAMINATION IN AN AMPLIFICATION PROCEDURE, Interference No. 105,257,
final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered June 10, 2005, as to
claims 1, 2, and 19-21.

                                                            WANDA M. TIGNER
                                     Supervisory Legal Instruments Examiner
                                    Board of Patent Appeals & Interferences