United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 24 June 2003

                       37 CFR 1.47 Notice by Publication

   Notice is hereby given of the filing of an 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 (Rene Kaeser) 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/EP99/08968 and was filed on 20 November 1999 in the name
of David George Leppard, Eugen Eichenberger, Rene Kaeser, Gebhard Hug,
and Urs Schwendimann for the invention entitled PROCESS FOR THE
PREPARATION OF ACYLPHOSPHINES, ACYL OXIDES AND ACYL SULFIDES. The
national stage application number is 09/856,769 and has a 35 U.S.C. 371
date of 14 January 2002.