[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 122 (Wednesday, June 25, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 34228]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-16577]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Kin-Tek Laboratories, Inc., Patent Licenses
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 USC 209(c)(1) and 37
CFR 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 in the United States to
practice the invention embodied in U.S. Patent Application Serial
Number 08/686,462, titled, ``Sample Storage Devices And Methods'' to
Kin-Tek Laboratories, Inc., having a place of business in LaMarque,
Texas.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bruce E. Mattson, National Institute
of Standards and Technology, Industrial Partnerships Program, Building
820, Room 213, 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 Application Serial Number 08/686,462 is a permeation
tube sealed internally in a commercially available automatic sampler
vial which provides a simple and convenient method of preparing, using,
and storing long-term samples such as retention index standards. The
approach is especially suited to the handling of volatile organic
compounds (VOCs). A sample can be dispensed at very low concentration,
even at infinite dilution.
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. 62, No. 54 (March 20, 1997). A copy of the
patent application may be obtained from NIST at the foregoing address.
Dated: June 18, 1997.
Elaine Bunten-Mines,
Director, Program Office.
[FR Doc. 97-16577 Filed 6-24-97; 8:45 am]
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