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Patents and Licensing
| A patent is an instrument by which the United States grants an inventor the right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a term of years. To qualify for a patent, the invention must be new, useful, and a non-obvious process or product.
Patenting enables FPL to grant patent licenses, which provide an important avenue for technology transfer. The exclusive nature of patent licenses promotes the transfer of technologies to the private sector for commercial markets. Below is a list of patented technologies that were invented by Scientists from the Forest Product Laboratory and other US Forest Service Research Stations. All are available for licensing and/or cooperative research opportunities. |
The Ring Profiler provides a more accurate look at how trees grow, and may have significant implications in forest management and climate-change studies.
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For more information, please visit the Patent & Licensing Program Information section of the national US Forest Service R&D Web site or contact: Janet Stockhausen, Esq. US Forest Service Patent Advisor Patent & Licensing Program US Forest Service One Gifford Pinchot Drive Madison, WI 53726-2398 Phone: (608) 231-9502 Fax: (608) 231-9508 Email: jstockhausen@fs.fed.us |
Termite damage in the United States is now estimated to be in excess of one billion dollars a year. Learn more about the use of Naphthalenic Compounds as an effective control of termite populations.
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