[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 130 (Thursday, July 6, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41646-41647]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-17119]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


Notice of Intent To Grant Exclusive Copyright License

AGENCY: Department of Energy, Office of the General Counsel.

ACTION: Notice of intent to grant exclusive copyright license.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of an intent to grant to Business 
Commerce Solutions of Gaithersburg, Maryland an exclusive license in 
the U.S. copyright in the EC-WEB EC/EDI Gateway small purchase 
software, as well as the right to register the copyright in foreign 
countries. A Notice to the effect that the computer software was 
available for license appeared in the February 7, 2000 issue of the 
Federal Register [65 FR 5859]. The two entities which responded to that 
Notice were asked to respond to a Questionnaire which asked them to 
detail their plans for maintaining and updating the software, and the 
resources they were ready, willing and able to commit to the task. 
Based on these responses, Business Commerce Solutions was chosen as the 
exclusive licensee. The copyright will be held by the United States of 
America, as represented by the Department of Energy (DOE). DOE intends 
to grant the license, unless within 15 days of this notice the 
Assistant General Counsel for Technology Transfer and Intellectual 
Property, Department of Energy, Washington, DC 20585, receives in 
writing a statement from any person setting forth a reason or reasons 
why it would not be in the best interests of the United States to grant 
the proposed license, together with supporting documents.

DATES: Send written comments to the address listed below no later than 
July 21, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Office of the Assistant General Counsel for Technology 
Transfer and Intellectual Property, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 
Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20585.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael P. Hoffman, Office of the 
Assistant General Counsel for Technology Transfer and Intellectual 
Property, U.S. Department of Energy, Forrestal Building, Room 6F-067, 
1000 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20585; Telephone (202) 
586-3441.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The above-described software was prepared 
under Government contract. Business Commerce Solutions, in return for 
an exclusive royalty-free license in the software, will maintain and 
revise the software, making the revisions available to the Government 
free of charge, thereby relieving the Government of part of the labor 
and expense of doing so.

    Issued in Washington, D.C., on June 29, 2000.
Paul A. Gottlieb,
Assistant General Counsel for Technology Transfer and Intellectual 
Property.
[FR Doc. 00-17119 Filed 7-5-00; 8:45 am]
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