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[FR Doc No: 94-29949]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 

University of Colorado Board of Regents; Prospective Grant of 
Exclusive Patent License

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of Prospective Grant of Exclusive Patent License.

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SUMMARY: This notice is 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 an exclusive license in the United States to practice the 
invention embodied in U.S. Patent Application 07/935,016, titled, 
``Perflourinated Inonomer Membrane Invention'' to The Board of Regents 
of the University of Colorado, having a place of business in Boulder, 
Colorado. This invention was co-developed by employees of the 
University of Colorado and NIST. The inventors' respective patent 
rights in this invention have been assigned to The University of 
Colorado and 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 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. The University of 
Colorado will have the right to, and intends to, grant sublicenses to 
commercial entities desiring to use the method.
    U.S. Patent Application 07/935,016 relates to a process describing 
the method for producing an improved perfluorinated ionomer membrane 
with an improved transport characteristic.
    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 U.S. Patent Application 07/935,016 was 
published in the Federal Register, Vol. 59, No. 208 (October 28,1 994). 
A copy of the patent application maybe obtained from the University of 
Colorado.

    Dated: November 30, 1994.
Samuel Kramer,
Associate Director.
[FR Doc. 94-29949 Filed 12-5-94; 8:45 am]
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