[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 119 (Thursday, June 19, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 34922]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-13861]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


Discovery Technology International, LLLP

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

ACTION: Notice of invention available for license and intent to grant 
exclusive license.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 
10/876,296, entitled ``Micromanipulator'', and U.S. Patent Application 
No. 11/406,335, entitled ``Piezoelectric Valve'', both developed under 
projects with the Science and Technology Center in the Ukraine (STCU), 
are available for licensing in the United States as deemed appropriate 
in the public interest. Discovery Technology International, LLLP (DTI), 
of Sarasota, Florida, has applied for an exclusive license to practice 
both inventions in the United States. The U. S. Government has the 
exclusive authority to license the inventions in the United States.

DATES: Written comments or nonexclusive license applications are to be 
received at the address listed below no later than July 21, 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 CONTACT: 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.
    DTI of Sarasota, Florida, has applied for an exclusive license to 
the Micromanipulator and Piezoelectric Valve inventions and has plans 
for their 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 30 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 the 
applicant states that it already has brought the invention(s) to 
practical application or is likely to bring the invention(s) 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 June 12, 2008.
Paul A. Gottlieb,
Assistant General Counsel for Technology Transfer and Intellectual 
Property.
 [FR Doc. E8-13861 Filed 6-18-08; 8:45 am]
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