United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 01 August 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. 6,328,550, Shiowshuh Sheen, Marc Baggen, Joseph Panarisi, Alan
J. Slesinski, NOZZLE FOR MAKING SNACK FOODS HAVING TWO OR MORE FILLED AXIAL
CAVITIES, Interference No. 105,408, final judgment adverse to the patentees
rendered April 25, 2006, as to claims 1-8.


Patent No. 5,691,314, Gary D.Hodgen, ADJUNCTIVE THERAPY, Interference No.
105,227, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered August 31, 2005,
as to claims 1-7, 10-14.


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