[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 19 (Monday, January 30, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5623-5624]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-2191]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Patent Licenses; ND Resources, Inc.
AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of prospective grant of exclusive patent license.
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SUMMARY: This is a notice in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(c)(1) and 37
CFR [[Page 5624]] 404.7(a)(1)(i) that the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (``NIST''), U.S. Department of Commerce, is
contemplating the grant of a field of use exclusive license to practice
the invention embodied in U.S. Patent Serial No. 08/237,099, titled,
``Method and Apparatus For Visualization Of Internal Stresses In Solid
Non-Transparent Materials By Ultrasonic Techniques and Ultrasonic
Computer Tomography Of Stresses'' to ND Resources, Inc., having a place
of business in Cincinnati, Ohio. The patent rights in this invention
have been assigned to the United States of America.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bruce E. Mattson, National Institute
of Standards and Technology, Technology Development and Small Business
Program, Building 221, Room B-256, Gaithersburg, MD 20899.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The prospective exclusive license will be
royalty-bearing and will comply with the terms and conditions of 35
U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 404.7. The prospective exclusive license may be
granted unless, within sixty days from the date of this published
Notice, NIST receives written evidence and argument which establish
that the grant of the license would not be consistent with the
requirements of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 404.7.
U.S. Patent Serial No. 08/237,099 relates to a process for the
detection and mapping of internal stresses in the interior of bulk
materials by scanning acoustic technique.
NIST may enter into a Cooperative Research and Development
Agreement (``CRADA'') to perform further research on the invention for
purposes of commercialization. The CRADA may be conducted by NIST
without any additional charge to any party that licenses the patent.
NIST may grant the licensee an option to negotiate for royalty-free
exclusive licenses to any jointly owned inventions which arise from the
CRADA as well as an option to negotiate for exclusive royalty-bearing
licenses for NIST employee inventions which arise from the CRADA.
The availability of the invention for licensing was published in
the Federal Register, Vol. 59, No. 195 (October 11, 1994). NIST is also
contemplating the grant of a field of use exclusive license for related
patent, ``Method And Apparatus For Visualization Of Internal Stresses
In Solid Nontransparent Materials by Elastoacoustic Technique,'' U.S.
Patent No. 5,307,680, to ND Resources, Inc. The notice of availability
of U.S. Patent No. 5,307,680 for licensing was published in the Federal
Register, Vol. 58, No. 49 (March 16, 1993), and notice of prospective
grant of exclusive license of U.S. Patent No. 5,307,680 was published
in the Federal Register, Vol. 59, No. 187 (September 28, 1994). A copy
of the patent application may be obtained from NIST at the foregoing
address.
Dated: January 18, 1995.
Samuel Kramer,
Associate Director.
[FR Doc. 95-2191 Filed 1-27-95; 8:45 am]
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