[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 88 (Thursday, May 7, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 25225]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-12108]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
National Institutes of Health
Prospective Grant of Exclusive License: Container for Drying
Biological Samples, Method of Making Such Container, and Method of
Using Same
AGENCY: National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, DHHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This is notice in accordance with 15 U.S.C. 209(c)(1) and 37
CFR 404.7(a)(1)(I) that the National Institutes of Health (NIH),
Department of Health and Human Services, is contemplating the grant of
an exclusive worldwide license to practice the invention embodied in
U.S. Patent Applicant SN 08/717,114 entitled ``Container for Drying
Biological Samples, Method of Making Such Container, and Method of
Using Same'' and related U.S. and foreign patent applications to
Whatman, Incorporated of Clifton, New Jersey. The patent rights in this
invention have been assigned to the United States of America.
Is is anticipated that this license may be limited to the field of
sales to; biotechnology labortories, and original equipment
manufacturers of diagnostics.
DATES: Only written comments and/or applications for a license which
are received by the NIH Office of Technology Transfer on or before July
6, 1998 will be considered.
ADDRESSES: Requests for a copy of this patent application, inquiries,
comments and other materials relating to the contemplated license
should be directed to: David R. Sadowski, Technology Transfer
Specialist, Office of Technology transfer, National Institutes of
Health, 6011 Executive Boulevard, Suite 325, Rockville, MD 20852;
Telephone (301) 496-7056 extension 288; Facsimile: (301) 401-0220; E-
mail ds27a@nih.gov. A signed Confidential Disclosure Agreement will be
required to receive a copy of the patent application.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The patent application describes a method
(and associated device) for venting a sample which is in a container,
the method comprising: providing a container having an opening, the
opening being sealed substantially with a filter. The filter permitting
permeation therethrough of at least one gas and substantially
preventing permeation therethrough of microbes. Wherein said container
is configured to withstand high speed centrifugation of 50 or more
times the force of gravity. Thus, gas is permitted to enter or exit the
container by permeating the filter, thereby affording venting of the
sample without substantial contamination of the sample with microbes.
More broadly, this invention permits the lyophilization or venting or
other permeation of gas into, or out of, a container, while preventing
contamination of a sample which is within the container.
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.
This prospective exclusive license may be granted unless within 60 days
from the date of this published notice, NIH receives written evidence
and argument that establishes that the grant of the license would not
be consistent with the requirements of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 404.7.
Applications for a license filed in response to this notice will be
treated as objections to the grant of the contemplated license.
Comments and objections submitted in response to this notice will be
not made available for public inspection, and, to the extent permitted
by law, will not be released under the Freedom of Information Act, 5
U.S.C. 552.
Dated: April 29, 1998.
Jack Spiegel,
Director, Division of Technology Development and Transfer, Office of
Technology Transfer.
[FR Doc. 98-12108 Filed 5-6-98; 8:45 am]
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