[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 85 (Tuesday, May 2, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 25464]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-10865]


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Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 85 / Tuesday, May 2, 2000 / Notices

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Agricultural Research Service


Notice of Federal Invention Available for Licensing and Intent To 
Grant Exclusive License

AGENCY: Agricultural Research Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of availability and intent.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the following Federally owned 
inventions are available for licensing and that the U.S. Department of 
Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service intends to grant to the 
University of Hawaii of Honolulu, Hawaii, and the Cornell Research 
Foundation of Ithaca, New York, an exclusive license to the following 
papaya varieties.

``UH Rainbow,'' as disclosed in U.S. Plant Patent Application Serial 
No. 09/301,389, filed on April 28, 1999; and
``UH Sunup,'' as disclosed in U.S. Plant Patent Application Serial 
No. 09/300,960, filed on April 28, 1999; and
``Laie Gold,'' as disclosed in U.S. Plant Patent Application Serial 
No. 09/446,769, filed on November 22, 1999; and
``Poamoho Gold,'' as disclosed in U.S. Plant Patent Application 
Serial No. 09/490,039, filed on January 24, 2000.


DATES: Comments must be received on or before July 31, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Send comments to: USDA, ARS, Office of Technology Transfer, 
5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Room 4-1158, Beltsville, Maryland 20705-5131.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: June Blalock of the Office of 
Technology Transfer at the Beltsville address given above; telephone: 
301-504-5989.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Federal Government's intellectual 
property rights to these inventions are assigned to the United States 
of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture. It is in 
the public interest to so license these inventions as the University of 
Hawaii and the Cornell Research Foundation have submitted a complete 
and sufficient application for a license. The prospective exclusive 
license will be royalty-bearing and will comply with the terms and 
conditions of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 404.7. The prospective exclusive 
license may be granted unless, within ninety (90) days from the date of 
this published Notice, the Agricultural Research Service receives 
written evidence and argument which establishes that the grant of the 
license would not be consistent with the requirements of 35 U.S.C. 209 
and 37 CFR 404.7.

Richard M. Parry, Jr.,
Assistant Administrator.
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