United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 30 April 2002

                      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 inventors. The inventors whose signatures are missing
(E. Ignacio Cespedes and Nico de Jong) 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/GB99/00144 and
was filed on 15 January 1999 in the name of Peter J. A. Frinking, E.
Ignacio Cespedes, and Nico de Jong for the invention entitled
ULTRASOUND CONTRAST IMAGING. The national stage application number is
09/600,219 and has a 35 U.S.C. 371 date of 25 October 2001.


                      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 (Hans
WEITEDER) 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/EP99/00785 and was filed on 05 February 1999
in the names of Matthias DAMMERS, Holger SCHMIDT and Hans WEITEDER for
the invention entitled RECLOSABLE POURING ELEMENT AND FLAT GABLE TOP
COMPOSITE PACKAGING PROVIDED THEREWITH. The national stage application
number is 09/601,677 and has a 35 U.S.C. 371 date of 22 December 2000.


                      37 CFR 1.47 Notice by Publication


   Notice is hereby given of the filing of an application with a
petition under 37 CFR 1.47 requesting acceptance of the application
without the signature of one of the joint 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
(Saifullah Khan) 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/US97/03516 and was filed on 03
March 1997 in the name of The Penn State Research Foundation et al for
the invention entitled "Compton Backscatter Pipe Wall Thickness Gauge
Employing Focusing Collimator and Annular Detector". The national
stage application number is 09/381,299 and has a 35 U.S.C. 371 date of
27 February 2002.