[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 134 (Wednesday, July 12, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43030-43031]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-17531]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


Prospective Grant of Exclusive License: ``Highly Elastic, 
Adjustable Helical Coil Stent''

AGENCY: National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, DHHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This is notice, in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(c)(1) and 37 
CFR 4040.7(a)(1)(i), that the National Institutes of Health, Department 
of Health and Human Services, is contemplating the grant of an 
exclusive license to practice the inventions embodied in U.S. Patent 
Application 08/434,822 entitled, ``Highly Elastic, Adjustable Helical 
Coil Stent'' filed on May 4, 1995 and now U.S. Patent 6,027,516, which 
issued on February 22, 2000, to Vascular Architects, Inc. of Portola 
Valley, California. The patent rights in the invention have been 
assigned to the United States of America.
    The prospective exclusive license territory will be worldwide and 
the field of use may be limited to all intraluminal uses.

DATES: Only written comments and or license applications which are 
received by the National Institutes of Health on or before October 10, 
2000 will be considered.

ADDRESSES: Requests for copies of the patent, inquiries, comments and 
other materials relating to the contemplated exclusive license should 
be directed to: Girish C. Barua, Ph.D., Technology Licensing 
Specialist, Office of Technology Transfer, National Institutes of 
Health, 601 Executive Boulevard, Suite 325, Rockville, MD 20852-3804. 
Telephone: (301) 496-7056, ext. 263; Facsimile (301) 402-0220; E-mail 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S. Patent 6,027,516 claims an 
adjustable helical coil stent which can be contracted or expanded away 
from a catheter. The invention relates to medical devices used to hold 
open blood vessel, heart valves and other conduits of the human body. 
The helical coil can be contracted around a small diameter catheter for 
percultaneous

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insertion into the human body and then be remotely expanded to its 
original shape. The devise is especially useful for total and partial 
heart bypass procedures.
    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 
(90) days from the date of this published notice, the NIH receives 
written evidence and argument that 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.
    Applications for a license in the field of use filed in response to 
this notice will be treated as objections to the grant of the 
contemplated exclusive license. Comments and objections submitted to 
this notice will not be made available for public inspection and, to 
the extent permitted by law, will not be released under the Freedom of 
Information Act, 5 U.S.C. 552.

    Dated: June 30, 2000.
Jack Spiegel,
Director, Division of Technology, Development and Transfer, Office of 
Technology Transfer.
[FR Doc. 00-17531 Filed 7-11-00; 8:45 am]
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