[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 7 (Wednesday, January 11, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 2744]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-686]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Morgantown Energy Technology Center; Notice of Intent To Grant 
Partially Exclusive Patent License

AGENCY: Department of Energy (DOE), Morgantown Energy Technology Center 
(METC).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of an intent to grant to Industrial 
Filter and Pump Manufacturing Company of Cicero, Illinois, a partially 
exclusive license to practice, limited to applications in the chemical 
process industry, the invention described in U.S. Patent No. 5,167,676, 
titled ``Apparatus and Method for Removing Particulate Deposits From 
High Temperature Filters.''
    The Department may grant exclusive or partially exclusive licenses 
in Department-owned inventions, if it determines that the desired 
practical application of the invention has not been achieved, or is not 
likely expeditiously to be achieved, under a nonexclusive license.

DATE: Written comments or nonexclusive license applications are to be 
received at the address listed below no later than March 13, 1995.

ADDRESSES: Technology Transfer Program Division, U.S. Department of 
Energy, Morgantown Energy Technology Center, P.O. Box 880, Morgantown, 
WV 26505.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Lisa A. Jarr, Technology Transfer Program 
Division, U.S. Department of Energy, Morgantown Energy Technology 
Center, P.O. Box 880, Morgantown, WV 26505-0880, Telephone: (304) 285-
4555.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Industrial Filter and Pump Manufacturing 
Company of Cicero, Illinois, has applied for a partially exclusive 
license to practice the invention embodied in U.S. Patent No. 
5,167,676, and has a plan for commercialization of the invention.
    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, 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 Technology Transfer Program Division, 
Department of Energy, Morgantown Energy Technology Center, Morgantown, 
WV 26505, 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 interest 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 it already has brought the invention to 
practical application or is likely to bring the invention to practical 
application expeditiously, for application in the chemical process 
industry.
    The proposed license will be partially exclusive, i.e. limited to 
application in the chemical process industry, 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, DC, this 4th day of January, 1995.
Thomas F. Bechtel,
Director, METC.
[FR Doc. 95-686 Filed 1-10-95; 8:45 am]
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