[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 13 (Thursday, January 20, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-1388]


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[Federal Register: January 20, 1994]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology

 

Femtosecond Systems, Inc.; Prospective Grant of Exclusive Patent 
License

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, DOC.

ACTION: Notice of prospective grant of exclusive patent license.

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SUMMARY: This is notice in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 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 co-exclusive license in the United States 
to practice the invention embodied in U.S. Patent 5,172,064, titled, 
``Calibration System for Determining the Accuracy of Phase Modulation 
and Amplitude Modulation Noise Measurement Apparatus'' to Femtosecond 
Systems, Inc., having a place of business in Columbia, Maryland. The 
patent rights in this invention have been assigned to the United States 
of America.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Bruce E. Mattson, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 
Technology Development and Small Business Program, Building 221, room 
B-256, Gaithersburg, MD 20852.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The prospective co-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 co-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 5,172,064 relates to an apparatus and method for 
determining the error due to inherent PM and AM noise in a noise 
measurement device.
    The availability of the invention for licensing was published in 
the Federal Register, Vol. 57, No. 158 (August 14, 1992). A copy of the 
patent application may be obtained from NIST at the foregoing address.

    Dated: January 12, 1994.
Samuel Kramer,
Associate Director.
[FR Doc. 94-1388 Filed 1-19-94; 8:45 am]
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