United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 15 March 2005

                       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
(Mindaugas F. Dautartas) 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/US02/38553 and was filed on 05
December 2002 in the names of Hui Luo; Mindaugas F. Dautartas; Dan A.
Steinberg; and David W. Sherrer for the invention entitled OPTICAL
WAVEGUIDE TERMINATION WITH VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL MODE SHAPING. The
national stage application number is 10/498,182 and has a 35 U.S.C. 371
date of 03 December 2004.

                       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 (Felix Okon Sam) 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/EP02/01898 and was filed on 22
February 2002 in the names of Felix Okon Sam and Luca Fedeli for the
invention entitled Isocyanate Compositions and Their Use in Preparation
of Expanded Polyurethanes with Improved Physico-mechanical Properties.
The national stage application number is 10/468,556 and has a 35 U.S.C.
371(c)(1), (c)(2) and (c)(4) date of 12 April 2004.