Pl4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 12, 1981
USDA grants exclusive license to company
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a
move to speed government
scientific discoveries into com
mercial use for the public, the U.S.
Department of Agriculture will
grant some exclusive licenses for
private companies to manufacture
and sell products patented by the
USDA.
The aim is to get a higher pay-off
for publicly-financed research.
The first such exclusive license
to develop a product to control
nematodes and other parasites
has been granted to the Pennwalt
Corp. of Philadelphia, according to
Anson R. Bertrand, USDA director
of science and education. The
product will be based on a formula
patented by the USDA.
“Nematode pests damage seven
percent of the nation’s total crop
production each year,” Bertrand
said. “At present values, that’s a
loss to farmers and consumers of
Cattle producers
‘move out’
STATE COLLEGE - Members
of the Pennsylvania Cattlemen’s
Association are planning a
chartered air flight or a bus tour to
San Antonio, Texas between
January 28 and February 3, to
attend the National .Cattlemen’s
Association 1982 Annual Con
vention.
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about $3 billion. We hope that a
nematode control product can be
developed to help cut those losses
jsubstantially.”
Bertrand said the products now
commercially available for con
trolling nematodes are too costly
for use on most crops.
“Companies often feel that
without some license protection,
they can’t afford the develop
mental and start-up costs to
produce and sell a product com
petitively. Instead, they will put
their limited capital resources into
their own patented fcr licensed
products that promise higher
returns than a product marketed
by many companies, ” he said.
USDA will continue to offer new
government patents to all private
companies on a non-exclusive
basis for six months. If no com
panies show an interest in non
exclusive licensing, the USDA will
for Texas
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The three-day convention
program and trade show will be
held at the San Antonio Convention
Center. The National Cattlmen’s
Association has planned several
tour of cattle operations in the San
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determine whether to license the
patent on an exclusive basis.
“I expect more and more
, ce’npanies will seek exclusive
licenses to USDA's inventions,”
Bertrand said.
About 1,200 USDA patents on
inventions ranging from farming
equipment to food proteins now are
available for licensing by private
industry for development and
marketing.
Pennwalt Corp., a chemical
manufacturing firm, has the right
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to the license for five years from
the date of government approval
for the sale of the product, and for
five years from the first com
mercial sale of the product in each
licensed territory, not to exceed
June 30,1989.
The research that resulted in the
patents was conducted at USDA’s
Agricultural Research Center in
Beltsville, Md., by Malcomb J.
Thompson, research chemist,
Insect Physiology laboratory;
Julius Feldmesser, technical
advisor-zoologist, Nematology
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now retired, formerly chief of the
Insect Physiology Laboratory.
These scientists now are eligible,
under the Federal Inventor In
centive Awards Program, to
receive a jiortion of the royalties
collected by the National
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through a cooperative agreement
between the two departments.
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