[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 217 (Wednesday, November 8, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 67020]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-28583]


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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

Notice (00-134)


Notice of Prospective Patent License

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

ACTION: Notice of Prospective Patent License.

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SUMMARY: NASA hereby gives notice that Synthecon, Inc., of Houston, TX, 
has applied for a partially exclusive license to practice the 
inventions described and claimed in U.S. Patent No. 5,153,132, entitled 
``Three-Dimensional Co-Culture Process''; U.S. Patent No. 5,153,133, 
entitled ``Method for Culturing Mammalian Cells in a Horizontally 
Rotated Bioreactor''; U.S. Patent No. 5,155,034, entitled ``Three-
Dimensional Cell to Tissue Assembly Process''; U.S. Patent No. 
5,155,035, entitled ``Method for Culturing Mammalian Cells in a 
Perfused Bioreactor''; U.S. Patent No. 5,308,764, entitled ``Multi-
Cellular Three-Dimensional Living Mammalian Tissue''; U.S. Patent No. 
5,496,722, entitled ``Cultured Normal Mammalian Tissue and Process''; 
U.S. Patent No. 5,627,021, entitled ``Multi-Cellular, Three-Dimensional 
Living Mammalian Tissue''; U.S. Patent No. 5,846,807, entitled ``Media 
Compositions for Three-Dimensional Mammalian Tissue Growth Under 
Microgravity Culture Conditions''; U.S. Patent No. 5,858,783, entitled 
``Production of Normal Mammalian Organ Culture Using a Medium 
Containing Mem-Alpha, Leibovitz L-15, Glucose Galactose Fructose''; 
U.S. Patent No. 5,851,816, entitled ``Cultured High-Fidelity Three 
Dimensional Human Urogenital Tract Carcinomas and Process''; and U.S. 
Patent No. 6,117,674, entitled ``Horizontal Rotating-Wall Vessel 
Propagation in Vitro Human Tissue Models.'' Each of the above U.S. 
Patents is assigned to the United States of America as represented by 
the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 
Partially exclusive license rights were also applied for in NASA's 
undivided interest in the U.S. Patent Application identified as NASA 
Case No. MSC-22859, entitled ``Production of Functional Proteins: 
Balance of Shear Stress and Gravity,'' and in pending PCT application, 
NASA Case No. MSC-22859 (PCT), entitled ``Production of Functional 
Proteins: Balance of Shear Stress and Gravity,'' and in foreign patents 
which may issue therefrom. Written objections to the prospective grant 
of a license should be sent to the Johnson Space Center.

DATES: Responses to this notice must be on or before January 8, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James Cate, Patent Attorney, NASA 
Johnson Space Center, Mail Stop HA, Houston, TX 77058-8452; telephone 
(281) 483-1001.

    Dated: November 1, 2000.
Robert M. Stephens,
Deputy General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 00-28583 Filed 11-7-00; 8:45 am]
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