[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 107 (Wednesday, June 4, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 33482]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-14027]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


Cooper Environmental Services, LLC

AGENCY: Office of the General Counsel, Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice of intent to grant exclusive patent license.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of an intent to grant to Cooper 
Environmental Services, LLC, of Portland, Oregon, an exclusive license 
to practice the invention described in U.S. Patent No. 6,200,816 B1, 
entitled ``Method For Measuring Particulate And Gaseous Metals In A 
Fluid Stream; Device For Measuring Particulate And Gaseous Metals In A 
Fluid Stream.'' The invention is owned by the United States of America, 
as represented by the Department of Energy (DOE).

DATES: Written comments or nonexclusive license applications are to be 
received at the address listed below no later than June 19, 2003.

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(a) provides the Department 
with authority to grant exclusive licenses in Department-owned 
inventions, where a determination can be made, among other things, that 
granting the license is a reasonable and necessary incentive to call 
forth the investment capital and expenditures needed to bring the 
invention to practical application, or to otherwise promote the 
invention's utilization by the public. The statute and implementing 
regulations (37 CFR part 404) require that the necessary determinations 
be made after public notice and opportunity for filing written 
objections.
    Cooper Environmental Systems, LLC, of Portland, Oregon, has applied 
for an exclusive license to practice the invention embodied in U.S. 
Patent No. 6,200,816 B1, and has a plan for commercialization of the 
invention.
    The exclusive license will 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 grant the license, upon a final 
determination in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209, unless, within 15 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 interest of the United States to grant the proposed 
license; or
    (ii) An application for a nonexclusive license to the invention, in 
which applicant states that he already has brought the invention to 
practical application or is likely to bring the invention to practical 
application expeditiously.
    The Department will review all timely written responses to this 
notice, and will grant the license if, after consideration of written 
responses to this notice, a determination is made, that the license 
grant is in the public interest.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on May 30, 2003.
Paul A. Gottlieb,
Assistant General Counsel for Technology Transfer and Intellectual 
Property.
[FR Doc. 03-14027 Filed 6-3-03; 8:45 am]
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