United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 05 March 2002

                      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
(Hossein MOSTAFAVI) 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/EP98/08405 and was filed on 22
December 1998 in the names of Wolf-Georg FORSSMANN, Ludger STANDKER,
Maik OBENDORF, Lothar KLING, Hans-Georg OPITZ and Hossein MOSTAFAVI for
the invention entitled INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR BINDING PROTEIN
FRAGMENTS AND THE UTILIZATION THEREOF. The national stage application
number is 09/582,107 and has a 35 U.S.C. 371 date of 10 August 2000.