United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 19 September 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. 6,854,647, Donald A. Collins, Daniel B. Seevers, Wayne
L. Orwig, Scott B. Henry, CHECKOUT DEVICE INCLUDING INTEGRATED BARCODE
READER, SCALE, AND EAS SYSTEM, Interference No. 105,327, final judgment
adverse to the patentees rendered, March 16, 2006, as to claims 1-17.

Patent No. 6,440,970, Thomas Jeffrey Clark, PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS
AND METHODS FOR USE, Interference No. 105,368, final judgment adverse to
the patentees rendered, April 6, 2006, as to claims 1-10.

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