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                Filed by: Trial Section Merits Panel                                                                                              
                Mail Stop Interference Paper No. 262                                                                                              
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                Alexandria Va 22313-1450 Filed:                                                                                                   
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                Fax: 571-273-0042                                                     1 December 2004                                             

                                    UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                                     

                                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                                      
                                                       AND INTERFERENCES                                                                          

                                          MARK 1. GREENE AND JEFFREY A. DREBfN                                                                    
                                                               Junior Party, MAILED                                                               
                                                     (U.S. Application 09/158,899)                                                                
                                                                     V. DEC 20 04                                       2                         
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                                             DAVID B. RING, ARTHUR E. FRANKEL PAT, & TIA. OFFICE                                                  
                                                                                                   [BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                       
                                             WALTER LAIRD and MICHAEL J. BJORN N E FERENCES                  1) T                                 
                                                               Senior Party                                                                       
                                         (U.S. Application Nos. 08/477,512, 08/486,817, and                                                       
                                          U.S. Patent Nos. 4,753,894, 5,169,774, 6,054,56 1)                                                      

                                                Patent Interference No. 105,048 (MPT)                                                             


                Before: LANE, MEDLEY and TIERNEY, Administrative Patent Judges.                                                                   
                TIERNEY, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                             
                                                         FINAL JUDGMENT                                                                           
                                                        (No Interference-in-Fact)                                                                 
                        For the reasons provided in the Decision on Motions (Interference No. 105,048, Paper                                      
                No. 258), it is:                                                                                                                  
                        ORDERED that there is no interference-in-fact between any of the involved claims of                                       
                Greene, U.S. Application 09/158,899 (claims 4-5 and 26-27) and Ring, U.S. Application Nos.                                        
                08/477,512 (claims 88-108 and 130-150), 08/486,817 (claims 88-115), and U.S. Patent Nos.                                          



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