[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 160 (Friday, August 18, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 43125]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-20532]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Technical Information Service
Notice of Prospective Grant of Exclusive Patent License
This is notice in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(c)(1) and 37 C.F.R.
404.7(a)(1)(i) that the National Technical Information Service (NTIS),
U.S. Department of Commerce, is contemplating the grant of an exclusive
license in the United States of America, Australia and Canada to
practice the invention embodied in the following patents and patent
application: U.S. Patent No. 5,279,745 (Ser. No. 7-429,236), Australian
Patent No. 627630 and Canadian Patent Application No. 2,044,167-4 to
Harrison-Western Environmental Services, Inc., having a place of
business in Lakewood, Colorado. The patent rights in this invention
have been assigned to the United States of America.
The prospective exclusive license will be royalty-bearing and will
comply with the terms and conditions of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 C.F.R.
404.7. The prospective exclusive license may be granted unless, within
60 days from the date of this published notice, NTIS receives written
evidence and argument which establishes that the grant of the license
would not be consistent with the requirements of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37
C.F.R. 404.7.
The invention expressed in the patents and patent application cited
above describe polymer beads which are prepared containing an
immobilized extractant for sorbing metal contaminants at concentrations
of less than 1 mg/L in dilute aqueous solutions. A preferred polymer in
polysulfone and the extractant can be a synthetic chemical compound
sorbed into activated carbon. The polymer beads are prepared by
dissolving the polymer in an organic solvent to form a solution, adding
the extractant to the solution to form a mixture and injecting the
mixture through a nozzle into water to form the beads.
The availability of the invention for licensing was published in
the Federal Register of July 18, 1990, Vol. 55, No. 138, p. 29255.
Copies of the instant U.S. patent are available from the Commissioner
of Patents and Trademarks, Box 9, Washington, D.C. at a cost of $3.00
each.
Any inquiries and comments relating to the contemplated license
must be submitted to Neil L. Mark, Office of Federal Patent Licensing,
NTIS, Box 1423, Springfield, Virginia 22151. Properly filed competing
license applications received by the NTIS in response to this notice
will be considered as objections to the grant of the contemplated
license.
Douglas J. Campion,
Director, Office of Federal Patent Licensing.
[FR Doc. 95-20532 Filed 8-17-95; 8:45 am]
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