81 FR 6299 - Notice of Intent To Grant Exclusive License
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 24 (February 5, 2016)
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[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 24 (Friday, February 5, 2016)] [Notices] [Pages 6299-6300] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2016-02225] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION [Notice (16-007)] Notice of Intent To Grant Exclusive License AGENCY: National Aeronautics and Space Administration. ACTION: Notice of intent to grant exclusive license. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: This notice is issued in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(e) and 37 CFR 404.7(a)(1)(i). NASA hereby gives notice of its intent to grant an exclusive license in the United States to practice the inventions described and claimed in USPN 8,384,614, Deployable Wireless Fresnel Lens; NASA Case No. MSC-24525-1 to Wifi2way, LLC, having its principal place of business in Holmdel, NJ. The patent rights in these inventions have been assigned to the United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The prospective exclusive license will comply with the terms and conditions of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 404.7. DATES: The prospective exclusive license may be granted unless within fifteen (15) days from the date of this published notice, NASA receives written objections including evidence and argument that establish that the grant of the license would not be consistent with the requirements of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 404.7. Competing applications completed and received by NASA within fifteen (15) days of the date of this published notice will also be treated as objections to the grant of the contemplated exclusive license. [[Page 6300]] Objections submitted in response to this notice will not be made available to the public for inspection and, to the extent permitted by law, will not be released under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. 552. ADDRESSES: Objections relating to the prospective license may be submitted to Patent Counsel, Office of Chief Counsel, NASA Johnson Space Center, 2101 NASA Parkway, Mail Code AL, Houston, Texas 77058; Phone (281) 483-3021; Fax (281) 483-6936. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Michelle P. Lewis, Technology Transfer and Commercialization Office, NASA Johnson Space Center, 2101 NASA Parkway, Mail Code AO52, Houston, TX 77058, (281) 483-8051. Information about other NASA inventions available for licensing can be found online at http://technology.nasa.gov. Mark P. Dvorscak, Agency Counsel for Intellectual Property. [FR Doc. 2016-02225 Filed 2-4-16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7510-13-P
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the Employment and Training extent of these crimes against description) and a detailed summary of
Administration, U.S. Department of farmworkers and developed a the research methodology employed to
Labor, or (2) in Burlingame, California, methodology to estimate the size of the derive the estimates. The information
at the office of ETA’s NAWS contractor, farmworker population that would be should also identify all authors and any
JBS International. The request should be eligible for LSC grantees’ services based relevant citations or references to those
submitted in writing to Mr. Daniel on the provisions of § 1626.4. See estimates or to materials relied upon by
Carroll at ETA—carroll.daniel.j@ Appendix A—Estimate of the those estimates. Please note that LSC
dol.gov—and identify the need for the Population of Agricultural Workers uses the 100%-of-poverty threshold for
NAWS information for commenting on Eligible for LSC-Funded Services population estimates. After the close of
this LSC proposal and explain why the Pursuant to 45 CFR 1626.4—Anti-Abuse the comment period, LSC will publish
NAWS public data file does not provide Law. LSC seeks feedback on the on www.lsc.gov all actual, potentially
sufficient information. methodology and results produced by reliable estimates submitted and related
this methodology. information. LSC will also publish a
B. LSC Seeks Comments on a New
notice in the Federal Register regarding
Proposal for Estimating the Number of C. LSC Will Accept Submission of
the availability of the estimates and
Aliens Within the Agricultural Worker Available and Reliable State- or Region-
Population Who Are Eligible for Specific Estimates of the Population of providing a comment period.
Services From LSC Grantees Pursuant to Agricultural Workers Eligible for LSC- Dated: February 1, 2016.
45 CFR 1626.4, Based on Sexual Abuse, Funded Services To Augment the ETA Stefanie K. Davis,
Domestic Violence, Trafficking, or Other Estimates in Individual States or Assistant General Counsel.
Abusive or Criminal Activities Regions—LSC Will Accept Such [FR Doc. 2016–02201 Filed 2–4–16; 8:45 am]
Several comments questioned the Estimates Only if They Include the Data BILLING CODE 7050–01–P
potential exclusion in the published and Methodologies Used, Including
estimates of certain non-U.S. citizen Authorship and Other Relevant
‘‘unauthorized’’ farmworkers who could Information NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND
be LSC eligible pursuant to specific anti- Some comments raised concerns SPACE ADMINISTRATION
abuse statutes, as provided in 45 CFR about the source data and the
[Notice (16–007)]
1626.4. LSC separates Basic Field methodology used by ETA. In
Programs funds into Basic Field— particular, concerns were raised about Notice of Intent To Grant Exclusive
General Grants and Migrant Grants in the types of state groupings used for License
order to make LSC funds available distribution of the estimated population
through grantees that are best equipped among the states, leading to AGENCY: National Aeronautics and
to serve the needs of different parts of understatements of the number of LSC- Space Administration.
the population of LSC-eligible clients. eligible farmworkers in particular states. ACTION: Notice of intent to grant
LSC therefore needs to use the best Specifically, comments stated that exclusive license.
available information to estimate those differences affecting agricultural
populations and direct funds workforces within a NAWS/NASS SUMMARY: This notice is issued in
accordingly. Notably, these estimates do region produced inaccurate estimates accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(e) and 37
not affect the eligibility of any for states within that region. Comments CFR 404.7(a)(1)(i). NASA hereby gives
applicants for services; the numbers are expressed the concern that states notice of its intent to grant an exclusive
used only for distribution of funding. grouped together by geographic license in the United States to practice
It is widely recognized by experts in proximity did not share similarities in the inventions described and claimed in
the field that significant numbers of commodities or farmworker workforces. USPN 8,384,614, Deployable Wireless
non-U.S. citizen farmworkers without These comments also identified Fresnel Lens; NASA Case No. MSC–
work authorization are already subject potential sources of more detailed 24525–1 to Wifi2way, LLC, having its
to the abusive or criminal activities that estimates within specific states or principal place of business in Holmdel,
would qualify them for LSC grantees’ regions. NJ. The patent rights in these inventions
services pursuant to § 1626.4. However, LSC investigated the possibility of have been assigned to the United States
the lack of data on this population ETA’s developing alternative estimates of America as represented by the
precluded ETA from developing a of the LSC-eligible population by Administrator of the National
national number to estimate this reconfiguring the NAWS/NASS regions, Aeronautics and Space Administration.
population. As a result, the published but ETA determined that doing so is not The prospective exclusive license will
estimates implicitly assume that no feasible. comply with the terms and conditions
unauthorized farmworkers are eligible Although the NAWS/NASS regions of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 404.7.
for LSC-funded services. produce the best available nationwide DATES: The prospective exclusive
This implicit assumption is and regional population estimates, LSC license may be granted unless within
inconsistent with statutes that explicitly understands that the NAWS/NASS fifteen (15) days from the date of this
authorize representation of regions might not account for unique, published notice, NASA receives
unauthorized individuals who have state-specific factors that could be written objections including evidence
been subject to abuse, sexual assault, relevant to delivery of these legal and argument that establish that the
trafficking, or certain other crimes and services in some states. Therefore, LSC grant of the license would not be
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both public and private data that requests submission of available and consistent with the requirements of 35
demonstrate that significant numbers of reliable state- or region-specific U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 404.7.
farmworkers are subject to such crimes estimates of the population of Competing applications completed and
and therefore eligible for LSC-funded agricultural workers eligible for LSC- received by NASA within fifteen (15)
services based on the provisions of 45 funded services to augment the ETA days of the date of this published notice
CFR 1626.4. In response to these estimates in individual states or regions. will also be treated as objections to the
concerns, LSC has identified and We underscore that the estimates must grant of the contemplated exclusive
assessed available sources regarding the include both the source data (and data license.
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Objections submitted in response to found at http://www.nsf.gov/nsb/ Marine and Environmental
this notice will not be made available to meetings/notices.jsp. Sciences, Northeastern University
the public for inspection and, to the AGENCY CONTACT: Ron Campbell, Marine Science Center, 430 Nahant
extent permitted by law, will not be jrcampbe@nsf.gov, 703–292–7000. Rd., Nahant, MA 01908
released under the Freedom of
Kyscha Slater-Williams, Activity for Which Permit Is Requested
Information Act, 5 U.S.C. 552.
Program Specialist, National Science Board. ASPA entry; A permit is requested to
ADDRESSES: Objections relating to the
prospective license may be submitted to [FR Doc. 2016–02362 Filed 2–3–16; 11:15 am] enter ASPA 152 (Western Bransfield
Patent Counsel, Office of Chief Counsel, BILLING CODE 7555–01–P Strait) and ASPA 153 (Eastern Dallmann
NASA Johnson Space Center, 2101 Bay) using the ARSV Laurence M.
NASA Parkway, Mail Code AL, Gould to capture Antarctic fish by
Houston, Texas 77058; Phone (281) NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION trawling and trapping. The collected
483–3021; Fax (281) 483–6936. fish would be used to study the effects
Notice of Permit Applications Received of a warming Southern Ocean on
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Under the Antarctic Conservation Act development of the embryos of
Michelle P. Lewis, Technology Transfer of 1978 (Pub. L. 95–541) Antarctic fishes. Data collected under
and Commercialization Office, NASA this permit would be part of a long-term
Johnson Space Center, 2101 NASA AGENCY: National Science Foundation.
ACTION: Notice of Permit Applications (30-year) dataset. Approximately 50
Parkway, Mail Code AO52, Houston, TX hours of trawling would be conducted
77058, (281) 483–8051. Information Received under the Antarctic
Conservation Act of 1978, Public Law in ASPA 152 and approximately 20
about other NASA inventions available hours would be conducted in ASPA
for licensing can be found online at 95–541.
153. Sixteen traps would be set and
http://technology.nasa.gov. allowed to soak for a total of 6 days. It
SUMMARY: The National Science
Mark P. Dvorscak, Foundation (NSF) is required to publish is anticipated that approximately five
Agency Counsel for Intellectual Property. a notice of permit applications received hundred (500) individual fish
[FR Doc. 2016–02225 Filed 2–4–16; 8:45 am] to conduct activities regulated under the representing four species (Notothenia
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Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. coriiceps, Chaenocephalus aceratus,
NSF has published regulations under Champsocephalus gunnari,
the Antarctic Conservation Act at Title Gobionotothen gibberifrons) would be
45 Part 670 of the Code of Federal captured in the ASPAs and used in the
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Regulations. This is the required notice study. Live fishes would be transported
of permit applications received. to the aquarium facilities at Palmer
Sunshine Act Meetings; National Station for experimentation. Breeding
DATES: Interested parties are invited to
Science Board and biochemical experiments would be
submit written data, comments, or
The National Science Board, pursuant views with respect to this permit conducted. All experimental animals
to NSF regulations (45 CFR part 614), application by March 7, 2016. This would be humanely euthanized and
the National Science Foundation Act, as application may be inspected by properly disposed of outside the ASPAs.
amended, (42 U.S.C. 1862n–5), and the interested parties at the Permit Office, Location
Government in the Sunshine Act (5 address below.
ASPA 152 Western Bransfield Strait
U.S.C. 552b), hereby gives notice of the ADDRESSES: Comments should be
and ASPA 153 Eastern Dallmann Bay.
addition of an agenda item in the addressed to Permit Office, Room 755,
plenary closed session of the National Division of Polar Programs, National Dates
Science Board meetings on February 3, Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson April 17, 2016 to September 1, 2018.
2016, as shown below. The original Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22230.
notice appeared in the Federal Register FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nadene G. Kennedy,
on January 29, 2016 at 81 FR 70259. Nature McGinn, ACA Permit Officer, at Polar Coordination Specialist, Division of
the above address or ACApermits@ Polar Programs.
Amended Agenda
nsf.gov or (703) 292–7149. [FR Doc. 2016–02166 Filed 2–4–16; 8:45 am]
Plenary Board meeting SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The BILLING CODE 7555–01–P
Closed session: 12:30–1:00 p.m. National Science Foundation, as
directed by the Antarctic Conservation
NSB Chair’s remarks Act of 1978 (Pub. L. 95–541), as NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Approval of closed plenary minutes amended by the Antarctic Science,
for November 2015 Notice of Permits Issued Under the
Tourism and Conservation Act of 1996, Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978
Approval of Stampede 2 preliminary has developed regulations for the
resolution establishment of a permit system for AGENCY: National Science Foundation.
Approval of Gemini preliminary various activities in Antarctica and ACTION: Notice of permits issued under
resolution designation of certain animals and the Antarctic Conservation of 1978,
Discussion and approval of Board’s certain geographic areas a requiring Public Law 95–541.
next steps regarding NEON special protection. The regulations
(ADDED) SUMMARY: The National Science
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establish such a permit system to
Closed committee reports designate Antarctic Specially Protected Foundation (NSF) is required to publish
NSB Chair’s closing remarks Areas. notice of permits issued under the
UPDATES: Please refer to the National Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978.
Science Board Web site for additional Application Details This is the required notice.
information. Meeting information and 1. Applicant—Permit Application: FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
schedule updates (time, place, subject 2016–025 Nature McGinn, ACA Permit Officer,
matter or status of meeting) may be Dr. H. William Detrich, III, Dept. of Division of Polar Programs, Rm. 755,
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| Dates | The prospective exclusive license may be granted unless within fifteen (15) days from the date of this published notice, NASA receives written objections including evidence and argument that establish that the grant of the license would not be consistent with the requirements of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 404.7. Competing applications completed and received by NASA within fifteen (15) days of the date of this published notice will also be treated as objections to the grant of the contemplated exclusive license. | |
| Contact | Ms. Michelle P. Lewis, Technology Transfer and Commercialization Office, NASA Johnson Space Center, 2101 NASA Parkway, Mail Code AO52, Houston, TX 77058, (281) 483-8051. Information about other NASA inventions available for licensing can be found online at http://technology.nasa.gov. | |
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