[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 179 (Monday, September 16, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Page 48705]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-19952]
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
Change of Publication Manner for Invention Licenses
AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: Currently, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) publishes
notices of prospective exclusive, co-exclusive, or partially-exclusive
domestic or foreign licenses of Government-owned inventions in the
Federal Register. VA is announcing that it will begin publishing such
notices at the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer
(FLC) Business website (http://www.federallabs.org/licenses-list),
providing opportunity for filing written objections within at least a
15-day period.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. John J. Kaplan, Ph.D., J.D.,
Director, VA Technology Transfer Program (10X2TT), Department of
Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20420; by email
at [email protected], or by phone at (202) 632-7271 (this is not a
toll-free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to 37 CFR 404.7(a)(1)(i) and
(b)(1)(i), an exclusive, co-exclusive, or partially-exclusive foreign
license, may be granted on Government owned inventions only if notice
of a prospective license has been published in the Federal Register or
other appropriate manner, providing opportunity for filing written
objections within at least a 15-day period. VA provides notice that it
will publish future notices of prospective exclusive, co-exclusive, or
partially-exclusive domestic or foreign licenses on FLC Business
website (http://www.federallabs.org/licenses-list), providing
opportunity for filing written objections within at least a 15-day
period.
Signing Authority
The Secretary of Veterans Affairs, or designee, approved this
document and authorized the undersigned to sign and submit the document
to the Office of the Federal Register for publication electronically as
an official document of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Robert L.
Wilkie, Secretary, Department of Veterans Affairs, approved this
document on September 5, 2019, for publication.
Dated: September 5, 2019.
Jeffrey M. Martin,
Assistant Director, Office of Regulation Policy & Management, Office of
the Secretary, Department of Veterans Affairs.
[FR Doc. 2019-19952 Filed 9-13-19; 8:45 am]
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