[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 5 (Monday, January 8, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1331-1332]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-441]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


PhA Environmental Restoration Corporation

AGENCY: Office of the General Counsel, DOE.

ACTION: Notice of intent to grant exclusive patent licenses.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of an intent to grant to PhA 
Environmental Restoration Corp., of Oak Hill, Virginia, exclusive 
licenses to practice the inventions described in U.S. Patent No. 
5,324,661, entitled ``Chemotactic Selection of Pollutant Degrading 
Bacteria'' and U.S. Patent No. 5,326,703, entitled ``Method of 
Degrading Pollutants in Soil.'' The inventions are owned by the United 
States of America, as represented by the U.S. Department of Energy 
(DOE).

DATES: Written comments or nonexclusive license applications are to be 
received at the address listed below no later than March 9, 2001.

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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert J. Marchick, 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) 
586-4792.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 35 U.S.C. 209 provides the Department with 
authority to grant exclusive licenses in Department-owned inventions, 
if, among other things, the agency finds that the public will be served 
by the granting of the license. The statute requires that no exclusive 
license may be granted unless public notice of the intent to grant the 
license has been provided, and the agency has considered all comments 
received, in response to that public notice, before the end of the 
comment period.
    PhA Environmental Restoration Corporation, of Oak Hill, Virginia, 
has applied for exclusive license to practice

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the inventions embodied in U.S. Patent Nos. 5,324,661 and 5,326,703, 
and has plans for commercialization of the inventions.
    The exclusive licenses will each be subject to a license and other 
rights retained by the U.S. Government, and other terms and conditions 
to be negotiated. DOE intends to negotiate to grant the licenses, 
unless, within 60 days of this notice, the Assistant General Counsel 
for Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property, Department of 
Energy, Washington, DC 20585, receives in writing any of the following, 
together with supporting documents:
    (i) A statement from any person setting forth reasons why it would 
not be in the best interests of the United States to grant either of 
the proposed licenses; or
    (ii) An application for a nonexclusive license to either invention, 
in which applicant states that he already has brought either invention 
to practical application or is likely to bring either invention to 
practical application expeditiously.
    The Department will review all timely written responses to this 
notice, and will proceed with negotiating the licenses if, after 
consideration of written responses to this notice, a finding is made 
that the licenses are in the public interest.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on January 2, 2001.
Paul A. Gottlieb,
Assistant General Counsel for Technology, Transfer and Intellectual 
Property.
[FR Doc. 01-441 Filed 1-5-01; 8:45 am]
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