United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 20 March 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. 5,364,770, Randy M. Berka, Daniel Cullen, Gregory L. Gray, Kirk
J. Hayenga, Virgil B. Lawlis, HETEROLOGOUS POLYPEPTIDES EXPRESSED IN
ASPERGILLUS, Interference No. 105,205, final judgment adverse to the
patentees rendered December 14, 2006, as to claims 34 and 53.

Patent No. 5,578,463, Randy M. Berka, Daniel Cullen, Gregory L. Gray, Kirk
J. Hayenga, Virgil B. Lawlis, HETEROLOGOUS POLYPEPTIDES EXPRESSED IN
FILAMENTOUS FUNGI, PROCESSES FOR MAKING SAME, AND VECTORS FOR MAKING SAME,
Interference No. 105,205, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered
December 14, 2006, as to claims 37, 65, and 81.

Patent No. 6,242,469, Samuel J. Danishefsky, Peter Bertinato, Dai-Shi Su,
Dongfang Meng, Ting-Chao Chou, Ted Kamenecka, Eric J. Sorensen, Aaron
Balog, Kenneth A. Savin, SYNTHESIS OF EPOTHILONES, INTERMEDIATES THERETO,
ANALOGUES AND USES THEREOF, Interference No. 105,298, final judgment
adverse to the patentees rendered November 27, 2006, as to claims 1-13.

Patent No. 6,284,781, Samuel J. Danishefsky, Peter Bertinato, Dai-Shi Su,
Dongfang Meng, Ting-Chao Chou, Ted Kamenecka, Erik J. Sorensen, Aaron
Balog, Kenneth A. Savin, SYNTHESIS OF EPOTHILONES, INTERMEDIATES THERETO,
ANALOGUES AND USES THEREOF, Interference No. 105,298, final judgment
adverse to the patentees rendered November 27, 2006, as to claims 1 and 2.

Patent No. 6,492,343, Police Seshidhar Reddy, Suresh Kumer Tikoo, Lorne A.
Babiuk, PORCINE ADENOVIRUS TYPE 3 GENOME, Interference No. 105,358, final
judgment adverse to the patentees rendered August 9, 2006, as to claims 13
and 14, 16-19, 21-28, 30-40, 43, and 44.

Patent No. 6,331,613, Laure Dumoutier, Jamila Louahed, Jean-Christophe
Renauld, ISOLATED NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES WHICH ENCODE T CELL INDUCIBLE
FACTORS (TIFS), THE PROTEINS ENCODED, AND USES THEREOF, Interference No.
105,409, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered August 24, 2006,
as to claims 1, 3-8, 16, 18, and 22.

Patent No. 4,853,020, Ronald R. Sink, METHOD OF MAKING A CHANNEL TYPE
ELECTRON MULTIPLIER, Interference No. 104,049, final judgment adverse to
the patentees rendered March 18, 2003, as to claims 5 and 7-9.

Patent No. 5,998,134, Wen-Hwa Lee, Eva Y-H.P. Lee, RETINOBLASTOMA
GENE-CANCER SUPPRESSOR AND REGULATOR, Interference No. 105,182, final
judgment adverse to the patentees rendered December 7, 2005, as to claims
1-4.

Patent No. 6,514,594, Guang-Xue Wei, Drew J. Buoni, Kimberly A. Dockus,
FLUORESCENT POLYMERIC ARTICLES HAVING SCREENING LAYER FORMED FROM U.V.
LIGHT ABSORBING POLYMER, Interference No. 105,404, final judgment adverse
to the patentees rendered, August 9, 2006, as to claims 1-64.

Patent No. 6,172,459, Liang S. Hung, Ching W. Tang, Pranab K. Raychaudhuri,
ELECTRON-INJECTING LAYER PROVIDING A MODIFIED INTERFACE BETWEEN AN ORGANIC
LIGHT-EMITTING STRUCTURE AND A CATHODE BUFFER LAYER, Interference No.
105,474, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered July 28, 2006, as
to claims 1-24.

Patent No. 6,333,700, Hubertus V. Thomeer, Sarmad Adnan, APPARATUS AND
METHOD FOR DOWNHOLE WELL EQUIPMENT AND PROCESS MANAGEMENT, IDENTIFICATION,
AND ACTUATION, Interference No. 105,466, final judgment adverse to the
patentees rendered November 21, 2006, as to claims 1-14.

Patent No. 5,687,722, Jonathan Tien, David R. Marble, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR
THE ALGEBRAIC DERIVATION OF PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS, Interference No.
105,478, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered, November 24,
2006, as to claims 1-28.


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