[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 215 (Monday, November 9, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57687-57688]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-26939]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Prospective Granting of an Exclusive License

AGENCY: Technology Transfer Office, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC), Department of Health and Human Services.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This is a notice in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(e) and 37 
CFR 404.7(a)(1)(i) that the Technology Transfer Office, Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of Health and Human 
Services (DHHS), is contemplating the granting of an exclusive 
worldwide license to practice the invention embodied in the patent 
application referred to below to International Rollforms, Inc., having 
a place of business in Deptford, New Jersey. CDC intends to grant 
rights to practice this invention to no other licensees. The patent 
rights in this invention have been assigned to the government of the 
United States of America. The patent to be licensed is:
    Title: Instrumented Rock Bolt, Data Logger and User Interface 
System, CDC Ref. : I-017-01.
    Patent No.: 7,324,007.

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    Filing Date: 12/27/2002.
    Issue Date: 01/29/2008.
    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.
    This invention includes the use of rock bolts, strain gauges and 
data loggers to increase the stability of rock mass comprising the roof 
and walls of mines. Strain gauges affixed to the rock bolts provide a 
measure of the strains and hence the stresses which a rock bolt is 
subjected to. The rock bolt may include a data logger which is coupled 
to receive signals from one or more strain gauges, and to record these 
signals to memory.

ADDRESSES: Requests for a copy of this patent, inquiries, comments, and 
other materials relating to the contemplated license should be directed 
to Andrew Watkins, Director, Technology Transfer Office, Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 4770 Buford Highway, Mailstop K-
79, Atlanta, GA 30341, telephone: (770) 488-8610; facsimile: (770) 488-
8615. Applications for an exclusive license filed in response to this 
notice will be treated as objections to the grant of the contemplated 
exclusive license. Only written comments and/or applications for a 
license which are received by CDC within thirty days of this notice 
will be considered. Comments and objections submitted in response to 
this notice will not be made available for public inspection, and, to 
the extent permitted by law, will not be released under the Freedom of 
Information Act, 5 U.S.C. 552.

    Dated: October 30, 2009.
Tanja Popovic,
Chief Information Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. E9-26939 Filed 11-6-09; 8:45 am]
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