[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 33 (Tuesday, February 19, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9106-9107]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-3010]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


Excom, Inc.

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

ACTION: Notice of Invention Available for License and Intent to Grant 
Exclusive License.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the ``Smart Visual Sensor'' (SVS) 
technology, developed under ISTC project  3195, is available 
for licensing in the United States as deemed appropriate in the public 
interest. Excom, Inc., of Holmden, NJ, has applied for an exclusive 
license to practice the SVS technology in the U.S. The U.S. Government 
has the exclusive authority to license the SVS technology in the United 
States.

DATES: Written comments or nonexclusive license applications are to

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be received at the address listed below no later than April 4, 2008.

ADDRESSES: Office of the Assistant General Counsel for Technology 
Transfer and Intellectual Property, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 
Independence Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20585.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: John T. Lucas, Office of the Assistant General 
Counsel for Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property, U.S. 
Department of Energy, Forrestal Building, Room 6F-067, 1000 
Independence Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20585; Telephone (202) 586-2939.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 35 U.S.C. 209 provides federal agencies with 
authority to grant exclusive licenses in federally-owned inventions, 
if, among other things, the agency finds that the public will be served 
by the granting of the license. The statute requires that no exclusive 
license may be granted unless public notice of the intent to grant the 
license has been provided, and the agency has considered all comments 
received in response to that public notice, before the end of the 
comment period.
    Excom, Inc., of Holmdel, NJ has applied for an exclusive license to 
the SVS technology and has plans for its commercialization. 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 negotiate to grant the license, unless, 
within 45 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 reason why it would 
not be in the best interests of the United States to grant the proposed 
license; or
    (ii) An inquiry concerning the technology, followed by an 
application for a nonexclusive license to the technology in which 
applicant states that it already has brought the invention to practical 
application or is likely to bring the technology to practical 
application expeditiously
    The Department will review all timely written responses to this 
notice, and will proceed with negotiating the license if, after 
consideration of written responses to this notice, a finding is made 
that the license is in the public interest.

    Issued in Washington, DC on February 7, 2008.
Paul A. Gottlieb,
Assistant General Counsel for Technology Transfer and Intellectual 
Property.
 [FR Doc. E8-3010 Filed 2-15-08; 8:45 am]
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