United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 13 June 2006

                       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. 6,156,229, Shungong Yang, William F. Mccoy, Anthony W.
Dallmier, STABLE OXIDIZING BROMINE FORMULATIONS, METHOD OF MANUFACTURE
AND USES THEREOF FOR BIOFOULING CONTROL, Interference No. 105,223,
final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered, September 29, 2005,
as to claims 1-20.

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