[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 88 (Tuesday, May 7, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 30651]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-11306]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology


Prospective Grant of Exclusive Patent License

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 in the United States of America, its 
territories, possessions and commonwealths, to NIST's interest in the 
invention embodied in U.S. Patent No. 6,015,714 (Application No. 09/
098,142), titled, ``Characterization Of Individual Polymer Molecules 
Based On Monomer-Interface Interactions,'' filed June 16, 1998; NIST 
Docket No. 95-040CIP, to the President and Fellows of Harvard College, 
1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Holyoke Center, Suite 727, Cambridge, MA 
02138. The grant of the license would be for all fields of use.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: J. Terry Lynch, National Institute of 
Standards and Technology, Office of Technology Partnerships, 100 Bureau 
Drive, Stop 2200, Gaithersburg, MD 20899.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The prospective exclusive license will be 
royalty sharing 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. 67, 
No. 19 (January 29, 2002).
    U.S. Patent No. 6,015,714 is a joint invention between Harvard, 
NIST, and the University of California. NIST's interest in the 
invention is owned by the U.S. government, as represented by the 
Secretary of Commerce. The present invention relates to a method for 
sequencing a nucleic acid polymer by (1) providing two separate, 
adjacent pools of a medium and an interface between the two pools, the 
interface having a channel so dimensioned as to allow sequential 
monomer-by-monomer passage from one pool to the other pool of only one 
nucleic acid polymer at a time; (2) placing the nucleic acid polymer to 
be sequenced in one of the two pools; and (3) taking measurements as 
each of the nucleotide monomers of the nucleic acid polymer passes 
through the channel so as to sequence the nucleic acid polymer.

    Dated: April 30, 2002.
Karen H. Brown,
Deputy Director.
[FR Doc. 02-11306 Filed 5-6-02; 8:45 am]
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