United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 20 April 2004

                        Notice Of Exclusion On Consent

   Ivar M. Kaardal, of Sioux Falls, SD, a patent attorney, with
registration number 29,812, has been excluded on consent from practice
before the United States Patent and Trademark Office in patent and
trademark law cases beginning March 1, 2004. This exclusion on consent is
made pursuant to the provisions of 35 U.S.C. 32, and 37 C.F.R. 10.133(b)
and (c).

March 18, 2003                                              JAMES A. TOUPIN
                                                            General Counsel
                                  United States Patent and Trademark Office
                                                               on behalf of
                                                               JON W. DUDAS
                                      Acting Undersecretary of Commerce for
                           Intellectual Property and Acting Director of the
                                  United States Patent and Trademark Office