United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 17 April 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. 5,837,994, Joseph Scott Stam, Jon Harold Bechtel, and John
King Roberts, CONTROL SYSTEM TO AUTOMATICALLY DIM VEHICLE HEAD LAMPS,
Interference No. 105,325, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered
September 26, 2006, as to claims 36-40 and 44-49.

   Patent No. 6,190,408, Dr. David Boyd Melvin, DEVICE AND METHOD FOR
RESTRUCTURING THE HEART CHAMBER GEOMETRY, Interference No. 105,452, final
judgment adverse to the patentees rendered August 16, 2006, as to claims
1-39.

   Patent No. 6,409,760, Dr. David B. Melvin, DEVICE AND METHOD FOR
RESTRUCTURING HEART CHAMBER GEOMETRY, Interference No. 105,452, final
judgment adverse to the patentees rendered August 16, 2006, as to claims
1-50.

   Patent No. 6,221,103, Dr. David B. Melvin, DEVICE AND METHOD FOR
RESTRUCTURING HEART CHAMBER GEOMETRY, Interference No. 105,450, final
judgment adverse to the patentees rendered August 16, 2006, as to claims 23
and 24.

   Patent No. 6,001,963, Derk J Bergsma, David P. Brooks, Miklos Gellai,
Shelagh Wilson, and Masashi Yanagisawa, NOVEL LIGANDS OF THE NEUROPEPTIDE
RECEPTOR HFGAN72, Interference No. 105,280, final judgment adverse to the
patentees rendered November 22, 2006, as to claims 1 and 3.

   Patent No. 6,113,906, Richard B. Greenwald, Anthony J. Martinez,
WATER-SOLUBLE NON-ANTIGENIC POLYMER LINKABLE TO BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE
MATERIAL, Interference No. 105,414, final judgment adverse to the patentees
rendered October 16, 2006, as to claims 7, 9, 10, 12, and 13.

   Patent No. 6,018,423, Koichi Takahashi, OPTICAL SYSTEM AND OPTICAL
APPARATUS, Interference No. 105,435, final judgment adverse to the
patentees rendered August 1, 2006, as to claims 1-42.

   Patent No. 6,521,233, Christopher S. Piddington, and Paul D. Bishop,
ADIPOCYTE COMPLEMENT RELATED PROTEIN HOMOLOG ZACRP3, Interference No.
105,421, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered July 5, 2006, as
to claims 1-15.


   Patent No. 6,103,199, Torleif Ove Bjornson, Randy M. McCormick, and
David S. Soane, CAPILLARY ELECTROFLOW APPARATUS AND METHOD, Interference
No. 105,444, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered February 27,
2007, as to claims 1-17.


                                                          Craig R. Feinberg
                                           Deputy Chief Trial Administrator
                                    Board of Patent Appeals & Interferences