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[FR Doc No: 94-26536]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

 

Notice of Intent To Grant Partially Exclusive Patent License to 
Sugar Land Products Co.

AGENCY: Department of Energy, Office of the General Counsel.

ACTION: Notice of Intent to Grant Partially Exclusive Patent License.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of an intent to grant to Sugar Land 
Products Co., of Houston, Texas, a partially exclusive license to 
practice the invention described in U.S. Patent No. 4,442,018, entitled 
``Stabilized Aqueous Foam Systems and Concentrate and Method for Making 
them.'' The invention is owned by the United States of America, as 
represented by the Department of Energy (DOE). The proposed license 
will be partially exclusive, i.e., limited to certain fields of use in 
the areas of transportation, construction, and agriculture. The 
partically exclusive license will be subject to a license and other 
rights retained by the U.S. Government, and other terms and conditions 
to be negotiated. DOE intends to grant the license, upon a final 
determination in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(c), unless within 60 
days of this notice the Assistant General Counsel for Technology 
Transfer and Intellectual Property, Department of Energy, Washington, 
D.C. 20585, receives in writing any of the following, together with 
supporting documents:
    (i) A statement from any person setting forth reasons why it would 
not be in the best interests of the United States to grant the proposed 
license; or
    (ii) An application for a nonexclusive license to the invention, in 
which applicant states that he already has brought the invention to 
practical application or is likely to bring the invention to practical 
application expeditiously in the specified fields of use.

DATES: Written comments or nonexclusive license applications are to be 
received at the address listed below no later than December 27, 1994.

ADDRESSES: Office of Assistant General Counsel for Technology Transfer 
and Intellectual Property, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 Independence 
Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20585.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Robert J. Marchick, Office of the Assistant General Counsel for 
Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property, U.S. Department of 
Energy, Forrestal Building, Room 6F-067, 1000 Indepedence Avenue, 
20585; Telephone (202) 586-4792.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 35 U.S.C. 209(c) provides the Department 
with authority to grant exclusive or partically exclusive licenses in 
Department-owned inventions, where a determination can be made, among 
other things, that the desired practical application of the invention 
has not been achieved, or is not likely expeditiously to be achieved, 
under a nonexclusive license. The statute and implementing regulations 
(37 CFR 404) require that the necessary determinations be made after 
public nortice and opportunity for filing written objections.

    Sugar Land Products Co., of Houston, Texas, has applied for a 
partially exclusive license to practice the invention embodied in U.S. 
Patent No. 4,442,018, for fields of use of the transportatin industry, 
the construction industry and the agriculture industry, and has a plan 
for commercialization of the invention for those fields of use.
    The proposed license will be partically exclusive as defined above, 
subject to a license and other rights retained by the U.S. Government, 
and subject to a negotiated royalty. The Department will review all 
timely written responses to this notice, and will grant the license if, 
after expiration of the 60-day notice period, and after consideration 
of written responses to this notice, a determination is made, in 
accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(c), that the license grant is in the 
public interest.

    Issued in Washington, D.C., on October 20, 1994.
Robert R. Nordhaus,
General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 94-26536 Filed 10-25-94; 8:45 am]
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