Federal Register: August 31, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 168)

DOCID: FR Doc 04-19843

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Navy Department

NOTICE: NOTICES

ACTION: Patent licenses; non-exclusive, exclusive, or partially exclusive:

DOCUMENT ACTION: Notice.

SUBJECT CATEGORY:

Notice of Intent To Grant Exclusive Patent License; SWORD Diagnostics

DATES: Anyone wishing to object to the grant of this license must file written objections along with supporting evidence, if any, not later than September 15, 2004.

DOCUMENT SUMMARY:

The Department of the Navy hereby gives notice of its intent to grant to SWORD Diagnostics, a revocable, nonassignable, exclusive license, to practice in the fields of rapid detection of pathogens for food safety; drinking water and process water; and human and veterinary diagnostic markets in the United States and certain foreign countries, the Governmentowned inventions described in U.S. Patent No. 6,038,344 entitled ``Intelligent Hypersensor Processing System (IHPS)'', Navy Case No. 77,409; U.S. Patent No. 6,167,156 entitled ``Compression of Hyperdata with ORASIS Multisegment Pattern Sets (CHOMPS)'', Navy Case No. 78,739; and U.S. Provisional Patent Application Serial No. 60/ 535,179 entitled ``Scanned Wavelength Spectroscopic Detector (SWSD) for Identifying Biological Cells and Organisms'', Navy Case No. 84,871.

SUMMARY:

SWORD Diagnostics,

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

Ms. Jane Kuhl, Head, Technology Transfer Office, NRL Code 1004, 4555 Overlook Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 203755320, telephone (202) 7673083. Due to U.S. Postal delays, please fax (202) 4047920, EMail: kuhl@utopia.nrl.navy.mil or use courier delivery to expedite response.
(Authority: 35 U.S.C. 207, 37 CFR part 404.)

Dated: August 24, 2004.
J.H. Wagshul,
Commander, Judge Advocate General's Corps, U.S. Navy, Federal Register Liaison Officer.