Department of Health and Human Services June 10, 2013 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

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 worldwide exclusive evaluation option license to practice the inventions embodied in: HHS Ref. No. E-010-2010/0, U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61/286,626, filed December 15, 2009, International Patent Application PCT/US2010/060506 filed December 15, 2010 (published as WO2011084480), European Patent Application 10798422.1 filed December 15, 2010, and U.S. Patent Application 13/ 516,480 filed June 15, 2012, to ArcheOptix, having its principle place of business in Kingston, Ontario (Canada). The United States of America is an assignee to the patent rights of these inventions. The contemplated exclusive license may be limited to devices for the detection of hematomas. Upon the expiration or termination of the start-up exclusive evaluation license, ArcheOptix will have the right to execute a start-up exclusive patent commercialization license with no greater field of use and territory than granted in the evaluation license.