[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 118 (Tuesday, June 19, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 32936]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-15396]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


National Institute of Standards and Technology

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 U.S.C. 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 an exclusive license world-wide to NIST's interest in the 
invention embodied in U.S. Patent Application 08/189,553, titled, 
``Integrated Optic Laser'', filed February 1, 1994; NIST Docket No. 93-
039CIP to Schott Glass Technologies, Inc., having a place of business 
at 400 York Avenue, Duryea, PA. The grant of the license would be for 
`Active Guided Wave Optical Devices'.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: J. Terry Lynch, National Institute of 
Standards and Technology, Office of Technology Partnerships, Building 
820, Room 213, MS-2200, 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. the availability of the 
invention for licensing was published in the Federal Register, Vol. 66, 
No. 47 (March 9, 2001).
    U.S. Patent application 08/189,553 is owned by the U.S. Government 
, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce. The present invention 
relates to new NIST technology provides a laser waveguide medium 
capable of generating laser amplification at multiple wavelengths. The 
medium can produce lasing with high output power and high efficiency at 
wavelengths that were not previously obtainable.

    Dated: June 11, 2001.
Karen H. Brown,
Acting Director.
[FR Doc. 01-15396 Filed 6-18-01; 8:45 am]
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