[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 116 (Friday, June 16, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 31704]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-14776]




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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and Technology


Notice of Prospective Grant of Exclusive Patent License

SUMMARY: This is notice 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 to practice the invention embodied in 
U.S. Patent Serial Number 08/328,806, titled, ``Transparent Carbon 
Nitride Films, Process For Making Carbon Nitride Films And Compositions 
Of Matter Comprising Transparent Carbon Nitride Films'' to Structured 
Materials Industries, Inc., having a place of business in Piscataway, 
New Jersey. 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 form 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 Serial Number 08/328,806 relates generally to 
transparent carbon nitride films and more particularly to transparent 
carbon nitride films for use in optical or solar energy devices. It 
also relates to processes for making transparent carbon nitride films, 
and compositions of matter comprising transparent carbon nitride films.

    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 the invention for licensing was published in 
the Federal Register, Vol. 60, No. 55 (March 22, 1995). A copy of the 
patent application may be obtained from NIST at the foregoing address.

    Dated: June 8, 1995.

Samuel Kramer,

Associate Director.

[FR Doc. 95-14776 Filed 6-15-95; 8:45 am]

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