
    Per HOFVANDER, Per T. Persson, Anneli Tallberg (deceased, by Lennart Hansson, Legal Representative), and Olle Wikstrom, Appellants, v. Richard G.F. VISSER, Evert Jacobsen, and Willem J. Feenstra, Appellees.
    No. 02-1188.
    United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.
    May 15, 2002.
   ORDER

The appellant having failed to file the brief required by Federal Circuit Rule 31(a) within the time permitted by the rules, it is

ORDERED that the notice of appeal be, and the same hereby is, DISMISSED, for failure to prosecute in accordance with the rules.  