United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 08 March 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 inventors. The inventor whose signature is missing
(Emerson P. Jones) 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/US02/25667 and was filed on 12
August 2002 in the names of James R. Birle, Jr., Jeffrey N. Edwards,
Yonathan Epelbaum, Frederick J. Fiddle, Stuart C. Kaperst, Todd K.
Kaplan, Daniel Y. Kerstein, Richard P. Liciano, Thomas H. Patrick, Jr.,
Paul A. Pepe, Eric Steifman, Russell L. Stein, Brennan J. Warble,
Richard J. Green and Emerson P. Jones for the invention entitled
CONTINGENT CONVERTIBLE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS.The national stage
application number is 10/480,350 and has a 35 U.S.C. 371(c)(1), (c)(2)
and (c)(4) date of 09 December 2003.