United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 20 December 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. 5,498,392, Peter Wilding, Larry J. Kricka, MESOSCALE
POLYNUCLEOTIDE AMPLIFICATION DEVICE AND METHOD, Interference No.
105,232, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered, August 31,
2005, as to claims 1-27.

Patent No. 6,408,277, Yoram Nelken, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR
AUTOMATIC TASK PRIORITIZATION, Interference No. 105,248, final judgment
adverse to the patentees rendered, August 3, 2005 as to claim 1.

Patent No. 6,280,898, Kojihasegawa, Tsunehiro Nishi, Takeshi
Kinsho, Jun Hatakeyama, Osamu Watanabe, NOVEL LACTONE-CONTAINING
COMPOUNDS, POLYMERS, RESIST COMPOSITIONS, AND PATTERNING METHOD,
Interference No. 105,297, final judgment adverse to the patentees
rendered, July 15, 2005, as to claims 1-20.

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