United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 16 March 2004

                       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
(Salvatore Cassarino and Aldo Bertola) may join in the application by
promptly filing an appropriate oath or Declaration complying with 37
CFR 1.497. The international application number is PCT/EP00/10509 and
was filed on 25 October 2000 in the name of Salvatore Cassarino; Aldo
Bertola; and Philippe Raucq for the invention entitled PROCESS FOR THE
PRODUCTION OF N-METHYL PYRROLIDONE USING GAMMA BUTYROLACTONE AND MIXED
METHYLAMINES AS STARTING MATERIALS. The national stage application
number is 10/111,452 and has a 35 U.S.C. 371 date of 10 February 2003.


                       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
(Peter V. Schwartz) 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/US01/50958 and was filed on 19
October 2001 in the names of Chad A. Mirkin, Peter V. Schwartz, James
J. Storhoff, and So-Jung Park, NANOLITHOGRAPHY METHODS AND PRODUCTS
THEREFOR AND PRODUCED THEREBY. The national stage application number is
assigned number 10/381,893 and has a 35 U.S.C. 371(c) date of 02
February 2004.