United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 06 December 2005
37 CFR 1.47 Notice by Publication Notice is hereby given of the filing of a national stage application with a petition under 37 CFR 1.47 requesting acceptance of the application without the signature of all inventors. The petition has been granted. A notice has been sent to the last known address of the non-signing inventor. The inventor whose signature is missing (Kevin W. Cooney) may join in the application by promptly filing an appropriate oath or declaration complying with 37 CFR 1.63. The international application number is PCT/US01/46426 and was filed on 30 November 2001 in the names of Jeffrey Taylor, Noel Morin, Annette Goodwine, Vicky Sze, James Hsin, Elaine Fung, Vered Shaviv, Reed Maltzman and Kevin W. Cooney entitled METHOD AND SYSTEM AUTOMATICALLY TO QUALIFYING A PARTY TO PARTICIPATE WITHIN A NETWORK-BASED COMMERCE TRANSACTION. The national stage application is assigned number 10/433,173 and has a 35 U.S.C. 371(c)(1), (c)(2) and (c)(4) date of 17 October 2005.