Intent to Grant Exclusive Patent License: Advantage Electronic Product Development Incorporated/Utility Crew Safety LLC

Federal Register: April 13, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 70)

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Advantage Electronic Product Development Incorporated/Utility

Crew Safety LLC

AGENCY: Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice of intent to grant exclusive patent license.

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given with an intent to grant to: Advantage

Electronic Product Development Incorporated/Utility Crew Safety LLC, of

Broomfield, Colorado, an exclusive license to practice the inventions described in U.S. Patent Application No. 12/401,033, entitled ``Ground

Potential Rise Monitor,'' and PCT/US10/26189, entitled ``Ground

Potential Rise Monitor,'' in the United States and in foreign countries. The inventions are owned by the United States of America, as represented by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

DATES: Written comments or nonexclusive license applications are to be received at the address listed below no later than April 28, 2010.

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: Annette R. Reimers, 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- 3815.

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. Under 37 CFR 404.7, DOE has considered whether the interests of the Federal Government or the United States industry in foreign commerce will be enhanced.

Advantage Electronic Product Development Incorporated/Utility Crew

Safety LLC, of Broomfield, Colorado, has applied for an exclusive license to practice the inventions embodied in U.S. Patent Application

No. 12/401,033, entitled ``Ground Potential Rise Monitor'' and PCT/

US10/26189, entitled ``Ground Potential Rise Monitor,'' and has plans for commercialization of the inventions. 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 15 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 application for a nonexclusive license to the invention in which applicant states that it already has brought the invention to practical application or is likely to bring the invention 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 April 07, 2010.

Paul A. Gottlieb,

Assistant General Counsel for Technology Transfer and Intellectual

Property.

FR Doc. 2010-8389 Filed 4-12-10; 8:45 am

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