United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 23 July 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
(Gerolf GEHL) 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/EP98/06599 and was filed on 19
October 1998 in the name of Gerolf GEHL for the invention entitled
IMPLANT MADE OF A REABSORBABLE CERAMIC MATERIAL. The national stage
application number is 09/529,897 and has a 35 U.S.C. 371 date of 30
November 2001.