94-29137. Patent Licenses; Biological Treatment for Controlling Wood Deteriorating Fungi
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[FR Doc No: 94-29137]
[Federal Register: November 28, 1994]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Patent Licenses; Biological Treatment for Controlling Wood
Deteriorating Fungi
AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) has
developed and patented an environmentally friendly microbiocide,
Actinomycete mutant, which protects wood and wood products against
wood-attaching fungi and is seeking to license it and to enter into a
Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) for its further
development.
DATES: The FPL will receive applications for exclusive and/or co-
exclusive licenses together with proposals for further development of
the research under a CRADA until 4:00 p.m. January 9, 1995.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
John G. Bachhuber, USDA, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory,
One Gifford Pinchot Drive, Madison, Wisconsin 53705-2398, (608) 231-
9282.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Patent No. 5,536,624, ``Biological Treatment
for Controlling Wood Deteriorating Fungi'', has been granted to the
FPL. The environmentally benign technology contained therein protects
wood against discoloration by sapstain (blue-stain) and mold fungi and
degradation by wood-rotting fungi. It involves the treatment of wood
and wood products with the microbiocide in the form of (1) living
cells, (2) metabolites, and (3) metabolites with low concentration of
cobiocides. This technology is an alternative to treating wood with
synthetic chemical preservatives which can pose a serious threat to the
environment. The current market worldwide for antisapstain chemicals
alone is about eighty million dollars annually. The value of treated
wood shipments for the United States of America is about two billion,
five hundred million dollars annually.
It is anticipated that the entity entering into a CRADA will be
granted a right of first refusal to license any new patents resulting
form the research under the CRADA.
This notice is issued under the authority of the Federal Technology
Transfer Act of 1986 (15 U.S.C. 3710a).
Dated: November 17, 1994.
Kenneth R. Peterson,
Acting Director.
[FR Doc. 94-29137 Filed 11-25-94; 8:45 am]
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Document Information
- Published:
- 11/28/1994
- Department:
- Agriculture Department
- Entry Type:
- Uncategorized Document
- Action:
- Notice.
- Document Number:
- 94-29137
- Dates:
- The FPL will receive applications for exclusive and/or co- exclusive licenses together with proposals for further development of the research under a CRADA until 4:00 p.m. January 9, 1995.
- Pages:
- 0-0 (None pages)
- Docket Numbers:
- Federal Register: November 28, 1994