[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 112 (Tuesday, June 11, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39958-39959]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-14613]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology


Notice of Prospective Grant of Exclusive Patent License

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce.

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. 5,244,634, titled ``System For 
Detecting Transition and Rare Earth Elements in a Matrix,'' NIST Docket 
No. 92-003D to Metara, Inc., having a place of business at 1225 E. 
Arques Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085. The grant of the license would be 
in the following fields of use: Semiconductor, Environmental, 
Pharmaceutical, Chemical and other related commercial applications.

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, Phone 301-975-2691.

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 thirty 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 on 
November 23, 1992.
    U.S. Patent No. 5,244,634 is jointly owned by the U.S. government, 
as represented by the Secretary of Commerce, and Dionex Corporation. 
The invention accurately detects transition and rare earth elements in 
environmental materials and natural waters, industrial waste, 
biological fluids, and other samples. The system is sensitive enough to 
detect these elements below the parts-per-billion level. Samples may 
contain 1,000 to 1 million times more alkali or alkaline earth metals 
than transition and rare earth elements. Ion-exchange detection methods 
are not specific enough to detect ions of interest in such samples.


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    Dated: June 3, 2002.
Karen H. Brown,
Deputy Director.
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