[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 160 (Friday, August 18, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 43125]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-20532]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Technical Information Service


Notice of Prospective Grant of Exclusive Patent License

    This is notice in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(c)(1) and 37 C.F.R. 
404.7(a)(1)(i) that the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), 
U.S. Department of Commerce, is contemplating the grant of an exclusive 
license in the United States of America, Australia and Canada to 
practice the invention embodied in the following patents and patent 
application: U.S. Patent No. 5,279,745 (Ser. No. 7-429,236), Australian 
Patent No. 627630 and Canadian Patent Application No. 2,044,167-4 to 
Harrison-Western Environmental Services, Inc., having a place of 
business in Lakewood, Colorado. The patent rights in this invention 
have been assigned to the United States of America.
    The prospective exclusive license will be royalty-bearing and will 
comply with the terms and conditions of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 C.F.R. 
404.7. The prospective exclusive license may be granted unless, within 
60 days from the date of this published notice, NTIS receives written 
evidence and argument which establishes that the grant of the license 
would not be consistent with the requirements of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 
C.F.R. 404.7.
    The invention expressed in the patents and patent application cited 
above describe polymer beads which are prepared containing an 
immobilized extractant for sorbing metal contaminants at concentrations 
of less than 1 mg/L in dilute aqueous solutions. A preferred polymer in 
polysulfone and the extractant can be a synthetic chemical compound 
sorbed into activated carbon. The polymer beads are prepared by 
dissolving the polymer in an organic solvent to form a solution, adding 
the extractant to the solution to form a mixture and injecting the 
mixture through a nozzle into water to form the beads.
    The availability of the invention for licensing was published in 
the Federal Register of July 18, 1990, Vol. 55, No. 138, p. 29255. 
Copies of the instant U.S. patent are available from the Commissioner 
of Patents and Trademarks, Box 9, Washington, D.C. at a cost of $3.00 
each.
    Any inquiries and comments relating to the contemplated license 
must be submitted to Neil L. Mark, Office of Federal Patent Licensing, 
NTIS, Box 1423, Springfield, Virginia 22151. Properly filed competing 
license applications received by the NTIS in response to this notice 
will be considered as objections to the grant of the contemplated 
license.
Douglas J. Campion,
Director, Office of Federal Patent Licensing.
[FR Doc. 95-20532 Filed 8-17-95; 8:45 am]
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