United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 03 January 2006

                       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
(Florin Isailas) 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/EP2/11021 and was filed 01
October 2002 in the names of Walter Tichy and Florin Isailas for the
invention entitled DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING A
DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEM. The national stage application number is
10/491,459 and has a 35 U.S.C. 371(c)(1), (c)(2) AND (c)(4) date of 08
July 2005.