94-29137. Patent Licenses; Biological Treatment for Controlling Wood Deteriorating Fungi  

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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