[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 31 (Tuesday, February 15, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-3408]


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[Federal Register: February 15, 1994]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army

 

Availability for Licensing of U.S. Patent Application Concerning 
the Rapid and Accurate Quantitation of HIV-1 Nucleic Acids in Large 
Numbers of Human Clinical Samples

AGENCY: U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command, DOD.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with 37 CFR 404.6, announcement is made of the 
availability of U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 08/154,416 entitled 
``High Through-Put Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction for HIV 
Clinical Specimens'' fined November 19, 1993 for licensing. This 
invention has been assigned to the United States Government as 
represented by the Secretary of the Army.

ADDRESSES: Commander U.S. Army Medical Research and Development 
Command, ATTN: Staff Judge Advocate, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland 
21702-5012.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John F. Moran, Patent Attorney, (301) 
619-2065 or telefax (301) 619-7714.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The invention involves methods and kits for 
the rapid and accurate quantitation of HIV-1 nucleic acids in large 
numbers of human clinical specimens. Cloned, standard internal controls 
for both HIV-1 and cellular sequences are used for parallel 
amplification and compared with test samples. A universal HIV-1 gag 
primer permits detection and quantitation of sequences from every known 
HIV-1 gag gene while liquid hybridization detection greatly reduces 
processing time, error, and cost.
Kenneth L. Denton,
Army Federal Register, Liaison Officer.

[FR Doc. 94-3408 Filed 2-14-94; 8:45 am]
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