United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 28 June 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 addresses of
the non-signing inventor. The inventor whose signature is missing
(Marie-France Guidoin) 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/CA02/01787 and was filed on 19
November 2002 in the names of Andre Curodeau and Marie-France Guidoin
for the invention entitled ELECTRIC DISCHARGE MACHINING ELECTRODE AND
METHOD. The national stage application number is 10/495,777 and has a
35 U.S.C. 371 date of 16 March 2005.