[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 183 (Thursday, September 19, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49316-49317]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-24023]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


Morgantown Energy Technology Center; Notice of Intent To Grant 
Partially Exclusive Patent License

AGENCY: Department of Energy (DOE), Morgantown Energy Technology Center 
(METC).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of an intent to grant to United 
Catalysts Incorporated of Louisville, Kentucky, a partially exclusive 
license to practice the invention described in U.S. Patent No. 
5,494,880, titled ``Durable Zinc Oxide-Containing Sorbents for Coal-Gas 
Desulfurization,'' and any follow-on patents issuing from continuation 
applications based on this patent. This license will be limited to the 
manufacture and sale of pelletized sorbents.
    The Department may grant exclusive or partially exclusive licenses 
in Department-owned inventions, if it determines that the desired 
practical application of the invention has not been achieved, or is not 
likely expeditiously to be achieved, under a nonexclusive license.

DATES: Written comments or nonexclusive license applications are to be 
received at the address listed below no later than November 18, 1996.

ADDRESSES: Office of Institutional Development, U.S. Department of 
Energy, Morgantown Energy Technology Center, P.O. Box 880, Morgantown, 
WV 26505.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Lisa A. Jarr, Office of Institutional 
Development, U.S. Department of Energy, Morgantown Energy Technology 
Center, P.O. Box 880, Morgantown, WV 26505; Telephone (304) 285-4555.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: United Catalysts Incorporated of Louisville, 
Kentucky, has applied for a partially exclusive license to practice the 
invention embodied in U.S. Patent No. 5,494,880, and any follow-on 
patents issuing from continuation applications based on this patent, 
and has a plan for commercialization of the invention.
    The invention is owned by the United States of America, as 
represented by the Department of Energy (DOE). The proposed license 
will be partially

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exclusive, i.e., limited to pelletized sorbents, subject to a license 
and other rights retained by the U.S. Government, and subject to other 
terms and conditions to be negotiated. DOE intends to grant the 
license, upon a final determination in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 
Sec. 209(c), unless within 60 days of this notice the Office of 
Institutional Development, Department of Energy, Morgantown Energy 
Technology Center receives in writing any of the following, together 
with the supporting documents:
    (i) A statement from any person setting forth reasons why it would 
not be in the best interest 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, for pelletized sorbents.
    The Department will review all timely written responses to this 
notice, and will grant the license if, after expiration of the 60-day 
notice period, and after consideration of written responses to this 
notice, a determination is made, in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 
Sec. 209(c), that the license grant is in the public interest.

    Issued: September 9, 1996.
Thomas F. Bechtel,
Director, METC.
[FR Doc. 96-24023 Filed 9-18-96; 8:45 am]
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