United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 07 December 2004

                      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 two of the inventors. The petition
has been granted. A notice has been sent to the last known addresses of
the non-signing inventors. The inventors whose signatures are missing
(Victor BRONSHTEIN and Gordana DJORDIJEVIC) 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/US02/14552 and
was filed 07 May 2002 in the names of Victor BRONSHTEIN, Gordana
DJORDIJEVIC, and Charles E. ISAAC for the invention entitled
PRESERVATION OF COMPETENT CELLS AT AMBIENT TEMPERATURES. The national
stage number is 10/477,014 and has a 35 U.S.C. 371(c)(1), (c)(2), and
(c)(4) date of 02 September 2004.