[Federal Register: August 5, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 150)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
Research and Development Office; Notice of Intent to Grant
Exclusive License
AGENCY: Research and Development Office, VA.
ACTION: Notice of Intent.
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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the Department of Veterans Affairs
Research and Development Office intends to grant to TransMedics, Inc.,
a Delaware corporation having a principal place of business in Woburn,
Massachusetts, U.S.A., an exclusive license to U.S. Patent Numbers:
6,046,046, issued April 4, 2000, entitled Compositions, Methods and
Devices for Maintaining an Organ; and 6,100,082, issued August 8, 2000,
entitled Perfusion Apparatus and Method Including Chemical Compositions
for Maintaining an Organ.
DATES: Comments must be received within fifteen (15) days from the date
of this published Notice.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to: Mindy Aisen, M.D., Director of Technology
Transfer, Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20420. Telephone: (202) 408-3670; Facsimile: (202) 275-
7228; e-mail: mindy.aisen@mail.va.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Copies of the issued patents may be
obtained from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office at http://
www.uspto.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: It is in the public interest to so license
these inventions as TransMedics, Inc. 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 fifteen (15) days from the date of this
published Notice, the Department of Veterans Affairs Research and
Development Office 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.
Dated: July 29, 2002.
Anthony J. Principi,
Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
[FR Doc. 02-19646 Filed 8-2-02; 8:45 am]
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