[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 122 (Wednesday, June 25, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 34228]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-16577]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology


Kin-Tek Laboratories, Inc., Patent Licenses

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of prospective grant of Exclusive Patent License.

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SUMMARY: This is a 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 a field of use exclusive license in the United States to 
practice the invention embodied in U.S. Patent Application Serial 
Number 08/686,462, titled, ``Sample Storage Devices And Methods'' to 
Kin-Tek Laboratories, Inc., having a place of business in LaMarque, 
Texas.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bruce E. Mattson, National Institute 
of Standards and Technology, Industrial Partnerships Program, Building 
820, Room 213, Gaithersburg, MD 20899.

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 Application Serial Number 08/686,462 is a permeation 
tube sealed internally in a commercially available automatic sampler 
vial which provides a simple and convenient method of preparing, using, 
and storing long-term samples such as retention index standards. The 
approach is especially suited to the handling of volatile organic 
compounds (VOCs). A sample can be dispensed at very low concentration, 
even at infinite dilution.
    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. 62, No. 54 (March 20, 1997). A copy of the 
patent application may be obtained from NIST at the foregoing address.

    Dated: June 18, 1997.
Elaine Bunten-Mines,
Director, Program Office.
[FR Doc. 97-16577 Filed 6-24-97; 8:45 am]
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