United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 12 June 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. 5,662,105, Jonathan Tien, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE EXTRACTMENT OF PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS, Interference No. 105,472, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered November 24, 2006, as to claims 1-20. Patent No. 6,479,080, Ezio Bombardelli, Paolo Morazzoni, TANACETUM PARTHENIUM EXTRACT AND METHOD OF OBTAINING SAME, Interference No. 105,423, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered December 20, 2006, as to claims 1-12. Patent No. 6,469,144, Avi J. Ashkenazi, APO-2LI AND APO-3 POLYPEPTIDES, Interference No. 105,438, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered September 26, 2006, as to claims 1-15. Patent No. 6,635,745, Richard Sedrani, Valerie Quesniaux Ryffel, RAPAMYCIN ASSAY, Interference No. 105,429, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered February 6, 2007, as to claims 1-4. Patent No. 6,635,429, Mark Leid, Philippe Kastner, Pierre Chambon, NOVEL HETERODIMERIC NUCLEAR RECEPTORS PROTEINS, GENES ENCODING SAME, AND USAGE THEREOF, Interference No. 105,510, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered November 30, 2006, as to claims 10-13, 16, and 19. Patent No. 5,342,291, Matthew T. Scholz, Michael D. Delmore, Daniel W. Davis, PRINTED WOVEN FIBER MATERIALS AND METHOD, Interference No. 105,458, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered April 5, 2007, as to claims 1-35. Patent No. 5,754,654, Masaaki Hiroya, Hiroshi Asao, ELECTRONIC TICKET VENDING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF, Interference No. 105,355, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered July 19, 2006, as to claims 1-4 and 12-18. Patent No. 6,426,419, Robert H. Grubbs, Tina M. Trnka, NOVEL RUTHENIUM METAL ALKYLIDENE COMPLEXES COORDINATED WITH TRIAZOLYLIDENE LIGANDS THAT EXHIBIT HIGH OLEFIN METATHESIS ACTIVITY, Interference No. 105,364, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered September 26, 2006, as to claims 1-35. Patent No. 6,426,419, Robert H. Grubbs, Tina M. Trnka, NOVEL RUTHENIUM METAL ALKYLIDENE COMPLEXES COORDINATED WITH TRIAZOLYLIDENE LIGANDS THAT EXHIBIT HIGH OLEFIN METATHESIS ACTIVITY, Interference No. 105,365, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered September 26, 2006, as to claims 1-35. Patent No. 6,624,265, Robert H. Grubbs, Tina M. Trnka, NOVEL RUTHENIUM METAL ALKYLIDENE COMPLEXES COORDINATED WITH TRIAZOLYLIDENE LIGANDS THAT EXHIBIT HIGH OLEFIN METATHESIS ACTIVITY, Interference No. 105,364, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered September 26, 2006, as to claims 1-20. Patent No. 6,624,265, Robert H. Grubbs, Tina M. Trnka, NOVEL RUTHENIUM METAL ALKYLIDENE COMPLEXES COORDINATED WITH TRIAZOLYLIDENE LIGANDS THAT EXHIBIT HIGH OLEFIN METATHESIS ACTIVITY, Interference No. 105,365, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered September 26, 2006, as to claims 1-20. Patent No. 6,372,813, Travis Johnson, John McGowen, Allyson Beuhler, Charles Kimball Brush, Robert Emil Lajos, METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR ATTACHMENT OF BIOMOLECULES TO SOLID SUPPORTS, HYDROGELS, AND HYDROGEL ARRAYS, Interference No. 105,442, final judgment adverse to the patentees rendered January 30, 2007, as to claims 8-12. CRAIG R. FEINBERG Deputy Chief Trial Administrator Board of Patent Appeals & Interferences