[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 52 (Thursday, March 18, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 13417]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-6592]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Notice of Intent To Grant Exclusive Copyright License
AGENCY: Department of Energy, Office of the General Counsel.
ACTION: Notice of Intent to Grant Exclusive Copyright License.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Energy intends to grant to Wilmington
Publishing Ltd. an exclusive license in the U.S. copyright in the
``Commercial Environmental Cleanup, Products and Services Directory''
(Directory), as well as the right to register the copyright in foreign
countries. The copyright is owned by the United States of America, as
represented by the Department of Energy (DOE). DOE intends to grant the
license unless we receive a request from a qualified party for a
nonexclusive license in the Directory, as well as a credible written
plan for maintaining the Directory and making it available to the
Government and the public, both in print and electronically, at
reasonable cost, or a statement of reasons why it would not be in the
best interests of the United States to grant the proposed exclusive
license, together with supporting documents.
DATES: Send written responses to the address listed below no later than
April 2, 1999.
ADDRESSES: Office of the Assistant General Counsel for Technology
Transfer and Intellectual Property, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000
Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20585.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael P. Hoffman, Office of the
Assistant General Counsel for Technology Transfer and Intellectual
Property, U.S. Department of Energy, Forrestal Building, Room 6F-067,
1000 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20585; Telephone (202)
586-3441.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This Commercial Environmental Cleanup,
Products and Services Directory, which is a database of companies
working in the area of environmental cleanup, was prepared under
Government contract. DOE does not wish to pay for the continued
maintenance and dissemination of this Directory, both to Government
agencies and to the general public. A Notice of the Opportunity for a
license in the Directory appeared in the January 20, 1998 issue of the
Federal Register [63 FR 2972]. DOE has secured a private entity,
Wilmington Publishing Ltd., which, in return for an exclusive, royalty-
free license in the Directory, will maintain it as well as make it
available in both print and electronic forms. They will make this
Directory available both to the Government and the general public, as a
stand-alone entity or incorporated with other services on a for-profit
basis, thereby relieving the Government of the labor and expense of
doing so.
Issued in Washington, D.C., on March 11, 1999.
Paul A. Gottlieb
Assistant General Counsel for Technology Transfer and Intellectual
Property.
[FR Doc. 99-6592 Filed 3-17-99; 8:45am]
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