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 of the 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 (Gregory Cowle) 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/AU98/00886 and was filed on 23
October 1998 in the names of Dmitrii Yu Stepanov, Ian M. Bassett and
Gregory J. Cowle for the invention entitled Brillouin/Erbium Fibre
Laser Current Monitor Using Elliptically Polarizing Fibre. The national
stage application is assigned number 09/509,835 and has a 35 U.S.C.
371(c) date of 27 November 2000.