[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 149 (Thursday, August 1, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 40183]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-19519]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Agricultural Research Service


Notice of Intent To Grant Exclusive License

AGENCY: Agricultural Research Service, USDA

ACTION: Notice of availability and intent to grant exclusive license.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that a Federally owned cultivar of 
centipede grass, ``TifBlair,'' is available for licensing and that the 
United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, 
intends to grant an exclusive license to the University of Georgia 
Research Foundation. Application for a Plant Variety Protection 
Certificate for this cultivar has been filed with the Plant Variety 
Protection Office in the United States Department of Agriculture.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before October 30, 1996.

ADDRESSES: Send comments to: USDA-ARS-Office of Technology Transfer, 
Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Baltimore Boulevard, Building 
005, Room 416, BARC-W, Beltsville, Maryland 20705-2350.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Andrew Watkins of the Office of 
Technology Transfer at the Beltsville address given above: telephone: 
301/504-6905.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Federal Government's plant variety 
protection rights to this variety are assigned to the United States of 
America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture. It is in the 
public interest to so License this invention, for the University of 
Georgia Research Foundation has submitted a complete and sufficient 
application for a license. 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 ninety days from the date of this published 
Notice, ARS 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 CFR 404.7.
R.M. Parry, Jr.,
Assistant Administrator.
[FR Doc. 96-19519 Filed 7-31-96; 8:45 am]
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