[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 14 (Friday, January 23, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 4146]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-1452]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Navy


Notice of Intent to Grant Partially Exclusive License; Sigma 
Technologies International

AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DoD.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Department of the Navy gives notice of its intent to grant 
Sigma Technologies International a revocable, nonassignable, partially 
exclusive license, with exclusive field of use in passivation of 
aluminum flake pigments that have a flake thickness of 5 nm to 2 micron 
and an area of 10 nm to 500 microns in diameter, in the United States 
to practice the Government-owned invention, U.S. Patent 7,193,649 
entitled ``Passivation Layer on Aluminum Surface and Method 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 February 20, 2009.

ADDRESSES: Written objections are to be filed with Indian Head 
Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Code CAB, Suite 107, 1st floor, 
3824 Strauss Avenue, Indian Head, MD 20640-5152.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. J. Scott Deiter, Head, Technology 
Transfer Office, Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division, 
Code CAB, 3824 Strauss Avenue, Indian Head, MD 20640-5035, telephone: 
301-744-6111.

    Dated: January 15, 2009.
A.M. Vallandingham,
Lieutenant Commander, Judge Advocate General's Corps, U.S. Navy, 
Federal Register Liaison Officer.
 [FR Doc. E9-1452 Filed 1-22-09; 8:45 am]
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