[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 140 (Wednesday, July 22, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 43476]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-17942]


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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

[Notice (15-062)]


Notice of Intent To Grant a Partially Exclusive License

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

ACTION: Notice of intent to grant partially exclusive license.

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SUMMARY: This notice is issued in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(e) and 
37 CFR 404.7(a)(1)(i). NASA hereby gives notice of its intent to grant 
a partially exclusive license in the United States to practice the 
invention described and claimed in U.S. Patent No. 8,977,482 B2 
entitled ``Method and Apparatus for Generating Flight-Optimizing 
Trajectories,'' NASA Case No. LAR-18077-1; U.S. Provisional Patent 
Application No. 62/058,390 entitled ``Traffic Aware Planner (TAP) Human 
Machine Interface (HMI) Version 4,'' NASA Case No. LAR-18551-P; and 
U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 62/058,423 entitled ``Traffic 
Aware Planner (TAP) Human Machine Interface (HMI) Version 4,'' NASA 
Case No. LAR-18551-P2, to Alaska Airlines, Incorporated having its 
principal place of business in Seattle, Washington. The fields of use 
may be limited to, but not necessarily limited to, aircraft owned and 
operated by Alaska Airlines, Incorporated. The patent rights in these 
inventions have been assigned to the United States of America as 
represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration. The prospective partially exclusive license will comply 
with the terms and conditions of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 404.7.

DATES: The prospective partially exclusive license may be granted 
unless, within fifteen (15) days from the date of this published 
notice, NASA receives written objections including evidence and 
argument that establish that the grant of the license would not be 
consistent with the requirements of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR. 404.7. 
Competing applications completed and received by NASA within fifteen 
(15) days of the date of this published notice will also be treated as 
objections to the grant of the contemplated partially exclusive 
license.
    Objections submitted in response to this notice will not be made 
available to the public for inspection and, to the extent permitted by 
law, will not be released under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 
U.S.C. 552.

ADDRESSES: Objections relating to the prospective license may be 
submitted to Patent Counsel, Office of Chief Counsel, NASA Langley 
Research Center, MS 30, Hampton, VA 23681; (757) 864-3230 (phone), 
(757) 864-9190 (fax).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jennifer L. Riley, Patent Attorney, 
Office of Chief Counsel, NASA Langley Research Center, MS 30, Hampton, 
VA 23681; (757) 864-5057; Fax: (757) 864-9190. Information about other 
NASA inventions available for licensing can be found online at http://technology.nasa.gov.

Mark P. Dvorscak,
Agency Counsel for Intellectual Property.
[FR Doc. 2015-17942 Filed 7-21-15; 8:45 am]
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