72 FR 104 pgs. 30390-30391 - Prospective Grant of Co-Exclusive License: Developing, Manufacturing and Selling Instruments, Reagents and Related Products and Providing Services Involving Sequencing Nucleic Acids, Including Without Limitations Diagnostic Devices and Services
Type: NOTICEVolume: 72Number: 104Pages: 30390 - 30391
FR document: [FR Doc. E7-10478 Filed 5-30-07; 8:45 am]
Agency: Health and Human Services Department
Sub Agency: National Institutes of Health
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
National Institutes of Health
Prospective Grant of Co-Exclusive License: Developing, Manufacturing and Selling Instruments, Reagents and Related Products and Providing Services Involving Sequencing Nucleic Acids, Including Without Limitations Diagnostic Devices and Services
AGENCY:
National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, HHS.
ACTION:
Notice.
SUMMARY:
This is notice, in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(c)(1) and 37 CFR 404.7(a)(1)(i), that the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services, is contemplating the grant of a co-exclusive license to practice the invention embodied in Patent Applications U.S. 60/151,580, filed August 29, 1999; PCT/US00/23736, filed August 29, 2000, U.S. 6,982,146 issued January 3, 2006, and USSN 11/204,367, filed August 12, 2005; entitled "High Speed Parallel Molecular Nucleic Acid Sequencing", to Invitrogen Corporation having a place of business in Carlsbad, California. The patent rights in this invention have been assigned to the United States of America.
DATES:
Only written comments and/or application for a license that are received by the NIH Office of Technology Transfer on or before July 30, 2007 will be considered.
ADDRESSES:
Requests for a copy of the patent application, inquiries, comments and other materials relating to the contemplated license should be directed to: Cristina Thalhammer-Reyero, PhD, M.B.A., Office of Technology Transfer, National Institutes of Health, 6011 Executive Boulevard, Suite 325, Rockville, MD 20852-3804; E-mail: ThalhamC@mail.nih.gov ; Telephone : 301-435-4507; Facsimile : 301-402-0220.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
The invention relates to a method and apparatus for high-speed, parallel molecular nucleic acid sequencing, also known as Two Dye Sequencing (TDS). This invention is based on Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET), a technology increasingly in use for several molecular analysis purposes. In particular, the method consists of: (1) Attachment of engineered DNA polymerases labeled with a donor fluorophore to the surface (chamber) of a microscope field of view, (2) addition to the chamber of DNA with an annealed oligonucleotide primer and template, which is bound by the polymerase, (3) further addition of four nucleotide triphosphates, each labeled on the base with a different fluorescent acceptor dye, (4) excitation of the donor fluorophore with light of a wavelength specific for the donor but not for any of the acceptors, resulting in the FRET transfer of the energy associated with the excited state of the donor to the acceptor fluorophore for a given nucleotide, which is then radiated, (5) identification of the nucleotides most recently added to the primer by recording the fluorescent spectrum of the individual dye molecules at specific locations in the microscope field, and (6) converting the sequential spectrum into a DNA sequence for each DNA molecule in the microscope field of view.
The prospective co-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 co-exclusive license may be granted unless, within 60 days from the date of this published Notice, NIH receives written evidence and argument that 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.
The field of use may be limited to "Developing, manufacturing and selling instruments, reagents and related products and providing services involving sequencing nucleic acids, including without limitations diagnostic devices and services".
Properly filed competing applications for a license filed in response to this notice will be treated as objections to the contemplated license. Comments and objections submitted in response to this notice will not be made available for public inspection, and, to the extent permitted by law, will not be released under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. 552.
Dated: May 24, 2007.
Steven M. Ferguson,
Director, Division of Technology Development and Transfer,Office of Technology Transfer,National Institutes of Health.
[FR Doc. E7-10478 Filed 5-30-07; 8:45 am]
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