[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 164 (Thursday, August 24, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 50049]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-14026]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Navy


Notice of Intent To Grant Exclusive Patent License; Tessarae Inc.

AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DoD.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Department of the Navy hereby gives notice of its intent 
to grant to Tessarae Inc., a revocable, non-assignable, exclusive 
license to practice in the field of use defined as design process, 
systems and applications utilizing high-density resequencing 
microarrays (greater than 100,000 features per array and less than 500 
square micron feature size), and manufacturable under good practice 
standards in batch quantities greater than 1,000 arrays (such as 
CustomSeq resequencing microarrays fabricated by Affymetrix, Inc.), for 
screening, diagnosis where approved by the appropriate local government 
health authority, and/or surveillance of pathogen induced disease in 
the U.S. and certain foreign countries, the Government-owned inventions 
described in Navy Case No. 96,744: COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED BIOLOGICAL 
SEQUENCE IDENTIFIER SYSTEM AND METHOD.//Navy Case No. 97,439: BROAD-
SPECTRUM PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTIC AND SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM.//Navy Case No. 
97,747: AUTOMATED SAMPLE-TO-MICROARRAY SYSTEM.//Navy Case No. 97,748: 
OPTIMIZED PATHOGEN RESEQUENCING DIAGNOSTIC AND SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM.//
Navy Case No. 98,057: RAPID DETECTION FOR OVER 20 RESPIRATORY PATHOGENS 
SIMULTANEOUSLY IN CLINICAL SAMPLES USING RESEQUENCING ARRAYS AND ANY 
CONTINUATIONS, DIVISIONALS OR RE-ISSUES THEREOF.

DATES: Anyone wishing to object to the grant of this license must file 
written objections along with supporting evidence, if any, not later 
than September 8, 2006.

ADDRESSES: Written objections are to be filed with the Naval Research 
Laboratory, Code 1004, 4555 Overlook Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20375-
5320.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Head, Technology Transfer Office, NRL 
Code 1004, 4555 Overlook Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20375-5320, 
telephone 202-767-7230. Due to U.S. Postal delays, please fax 202-404-
7920, e-mail [email protected], or use courier delivery to 
expedite response.

(Authority: 35 U.S.C. 207, 37 CFR part 404.)

    Dated: August 18, 2006.
M.A. Harvison,
Lieutenant Commander, Judge Advocate General's Corps, U.S. Navy, 
Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. E6-14026 Filed 8-23-06; 8:45 am]
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