United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 16 January 2007

                      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. 5,945,577, Jose Cibelli, James Robl, Paul Golueke, F. Abel Ponce
de Leon, and D. Joseph Jerry, CLONING USING DONOR NUCLEI FROM PROLIFERATING
SOMATIC CELLS, Interference No. 104,746, final judgment adverse to the
patentees rendered December 20, 2004, as to claims 1-24.

Patent No. 6,235,970, Steven L. Stice, Jose Cibelli, James Robl, Paul
Golueke, F. Abel Ponce De Leon, and D. Joseph Jerry, CICM CELLS AND
NON-HUMAN MAMMALIAN EMBRYOS PREPARED BY NUCLEAR TRANSFER OF A PROLIFERATING
DIFFERENTIATED CELL OR ITS NUCLEUS, Interference No. 105,192, final
judgment adverse to the patentees rendered February 11, 2005, as to claims
1-21.


                                                          CRAIG R. FEINBERG
                                           Deputy Chief Trial Administrator
                                    Board of Patent Appeals & Interferences