National Institute of Standards and Technology March 16, 2007 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

This is a notice in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(c)(1) and 37 CFR 404.7(a)(1)(i) that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (``NIST''), U.S. Department of Commerce, is contemplating the grant of an exclusive license in the United States of America, its territories, possessions and commonwealths, to NIST's interest in the invention embodied in U.S. Patent No. 5,514,501 (Application No. 08/ 255,961), titled ``Process For UV-Photopatterning of Thiolate Monolayers Self-Assembled On Gold, Silver and Other Substrates,'' NIST Docket No. 93-047US to Stratos Biosystems, LLC, having a place of business at 2401 Elliott Avenue, 5th Floor, Seattle, Washington 98121. The grant of the license would be for the field of use: Substrates for analysis of proteins and nucleic acids by mass spectrometry in the Life Sciences Research and In Vitro Diagnostic markets.