67020 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 217 / Wednesday, November 8, 2000 / Notices

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agenda for the meeting is as follows:

—Overview of NASA

—Small Disadvantaged Business

Participation in Major NASA

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—Report on Mentor-Prote ́

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—Action Items

—NASA Small Disadvantaged Business

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—Report of Chair

—Public Comment

—Report from MBRAC Sub Panels

—Status of Best Practices for Teaming

Agreements

—Report on SDB Participation on

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Dated: October 31, 2000.

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Notice of Prospective Patent License

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and

Space Administration.

ACTION: Notice of Prospective Patent

License.

SUMMARY: NASA hereby gives notice

that Synthecon, Inc., of Houston, TX,

has applied for a partially exclusive

license to practice the inventions

described and claimed in U.S. Patent

No. 5,153,132, entitled ‘‘ThreeDimensional Co-Culture Process’’; U.S.

Patent No. 5,153,133, entitled ‘‘Method

for Culturing Mammalian Cells in a

Horizontally Rotated Bioreactor’’; U.S.

Patent No. 5,155,034, entitled ‘‘ThreeDimensional Cell to Tissue Assembly

Process’’; U.S. Patent No. 5,155,035,

entitled ‘‘Method for Culturing

Mammalian Cells in a Perfused

Bioreactor’’; U.S. Patent No. 5,308,764,

entitled ‘‘Multi-Cellular ThreeDimensional Living Mammalian

Tissue’’; U.S. Patent No. 5,496,722,

entitled ‘‘Cultured Normal Mammalian

Tissue and Process’’; U.S. Patent No.

5,627,021, entitled ‘‘Multi-Cellular,

Three-Dimensional Living Mammalian

Tissue’’; U.S. Patent No. 5,846,807,

entitled ‘‘Media Compositions for

Three-Dimensional Mammalian Tissue

Growth Under Microgravity Culture

Conditions’’; U.S. Patent No. 5,858,783,

entitled ‘‘Production of Normal

Mammalian Organ Culture Using a

Medium Containing Mem-Alpha,

Leibovitz L–15, Glucose Galactose

Fructose’’; U.S. Patent No. 5,851,816,

entitled ‘‘Cultured High-Fidelity Three

Dimensional Human Urogenital Tract

Carcinomas and Process’’; and U.S.

Patent No. 6,117,674, entitled

‘‘Horizontal Rotating-Wall Vessel

Propagation in Vitro Human Tissue

Models.’’ Each of the above U.S. Patents

is assigned to the United States of

America as represented by the

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Partially exclusive license rights were

also applied for in NASA’s undivided

interest in the U.S. Patent Application

identified as NASA Case No. MSC–

22859, entitled ‘‘Production of

Functional Proteins: Balance of Shear

Stress and Gravity,’’ and in pending

PCT application, NASA Case No. MSC–

22859 (PCT), entitled ‘‘Production of

Functional Proteins: Balance of Shear

Stress and Gravity,’’ and in foreign

patents which may issue therefrom.

Written objections to the prospective

grant of a license should be sent to the

Johnson Space Center.

DATES: Responses to this notice must be

on or before January 8, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

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Johnson Space Center, Mail Stop HA,

Houston, TX 77058–8452; telephone

(281) 483–1001.

Dated: November 1, 2000.

Robert M. Stephens,

Deputy General Counsel.

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