[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 62 (Friday, March 31, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 16621]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-7860]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and Technology


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 is notice in accordance with 35 USC 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 all microgravity and space related research 
including, but not limited to the Space Shuttle, the MIR Space Station, 
the US Space Station, orbital re-entry vehicles, sounding rockets and 
low ``g'' research aircraft, to practice the invention embodied in U.S. 
Patent Number 5,104,478, titled, ``Method For Making Single Crystals'' 
to Instrumentation Technology Associates, Inc., having a place of 
business in Exton, Pennsylvania. 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 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.
    U.S. Patent Number 5,104,478 is a method for making single 
crystals, comprising osmotically removing the solvent from a solution 
containing the material to be grown into a crystal.
    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: March 22, 1995.
Samuel Kramer,
Associate Director.
[FR Doc. 95-7860 Filed 3-30-95; 8:45 am]
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