Royalty Report: Scientific & Technical Instruments, Detection, Semiconductors – Collection: 27499

License Grant

The University hereby grants to the Licensee an exclusive license in the Field of Use, including the right to sublicense under the Patent Rights to make, have made, use, Sell, offer for Sale, import Licensed Products, and to practice the Licensed Method in the United States and in other countries where the University may lawfully grant such licenses.

The University also grant to the Licensee, so long as it retains exclusive rights under this Agreement, the right to issue Sublicenses.

License Property

Whereas, certain inventions are characterized as 'Chemical Nanowire Sensor Arrays' ('Invention');
Whereas, the Invention covered under UC Case Number 2004-177 ('Bio-receptor Embedded Conductive Polymer Nanowire Sensor Arrays');
Whereas, the Invention covered under UC Case Number 2007-108 ('Metal Nanoparticles Decorated Carbon Nanotubes for Gas Sensors');
Whereas, certain of the Inventions covered under UC Case Numbers 2010-170 ('Synthesis of Nanopeapods by Galvanic Displacement of Segmented Nanowires') and 2010-240 ('Metal and Metal Oxides Co-Functionalization SWNT's as High Performance Gas Sensors');

The License was granted within certain fields of use relating to “Bio-receptor Embedded Conductive Polymer Nanowire Sensor Arrays”, “Metal Nanoparticles Decorated Carbon Nanotubes for Gas Sensors”, the “Synthesis of Nanopeapods by Galvanic Displacement of Segmented Nanowires”, “Metal and Metal Oxides Co-Functionalization SWNT’s as High Performance Gas Sensors”, “Ultra-Sensitive Gas Sensors Based on Tellurium-Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Hybrid Nanostructures” and “Selective Nanoscale Asymmetric Gas Sensors”.

The license relates to patented and patent-pending sensor technologies based on nano materials that can detect airborne gases to the parts-per-billion (PPB) level.

'Patent Rights' means the University's interest in the Valid Claims of the United States patents and patent applications, corresponding foreign patents and patent applications and any reissues, extensions, substitutions, continuations, divisions, and continuation-in-part applications (but only those Valid Claims in the continuation-in-part applications that are entirely supported in the specification and entitled to the priority date of the parent application) based on the following

'Bio-receptor Embedded Conductive Polymer Nanowire Sensor Arrays' filed on October 25, 2005, United States Patent Application Serial Number 11/259,557, assigned to The Regents (UC Case Number 2004-177-2);
'Metal Nanoparticles Decorated Carbon Nanotubes for Gas Sensors' filed on September 11, 2007, United States Patent Application Serial Number 12/514,050, assigned to The Regents (UC Case Number 2007-108-2);
'Synthesis of Nanopeapods by Galvanic Displacement of Segmented Nanowires' to be filed shortly and assigned to The Regents (UC Case Number 2010-170); and
'Metal and Metal Oxides Co-Functionalization SWNT's as High Performance Gas Sensors' to be filed shortly and assigned to The Regents (UC Case Number 2010-240).

Field of Use

'Field of Use' means the use of the Licensed Products and the Licensed Methods for chemical detection using carbon nanotube-based sensory arrays. Any use of the Licensed Products for other than chemical detection is excluded from the Field of Use.

The Licensee will try to commercialize patented and patent-pending sensor technologies based on nano materials that can detect airborne gases to the parts-per-billion level to be used in air quality monitoring, explosives detection, industrial plant toxic gas detection, gaseous chemical warfare agent detection, food and agricultural safety hazard detection and other applications.

License Grant

The Canadian University grants to Licensee the exclusive right and license in the Territory for the Field of Use to practice under the Patent Rights and Know-How, and to the extent not prohibited by other patents, to make, have made, use, maintain, execute, copy, market, lease and sell Licensed Products during the Agreement Term.

License Property

A patent application was filed for the Universal Gas Detector technology (priority claimed by United States Provisional Application 60/041,653).

Universal Gas Sensor Patent Application Filed Non-provisional United States patent application entitled A Universal Gas Sensor for the Selective Detection of Toxic Chemicals and Combustable Gases

Field of Use

The technology is intended to selectively detect any reducing gas or oxidizing gas and/or their vapors, and involves a detecting system that can be designed to use any commercially available sensor head.

The Licensee's sensors are used for detection of hydrogen, the most plentiful element on the earth. Hydrogen is one of two major elements of water, which covers over 60% of the planet.

License Grant

The University hereby grants to the Licensee an exclusive license in the Field of Use for Patent Rights relating to 'Insect Repellent and Attractants,' filed on March 4, 2009, United States patent application serial number 12/398,164, assigned to The Regents (UC Case Number 2009-334); an exclusive license in the Field of Use for Patent Rights relating to 'Predicting Ligands for Odor Receptors and Olfactory Neurons Using Chemical Informatics,' filed on April 16, 2011, United States patent application number PCT/US11/32804, assigned to The Regents (UC Case Number 2010-476); and an exclusive license in the Field of Use for Patent Rights relating to 'Odors for Asian Citrus Psylid Trapping, Repelling and Control,' filed on October 14, 2011, United States patent application serial number 61/547,559, assigned to The Regents (UC Case Number 2012-242); including the right to sublicense pursuant to Article 3 (Sublicenses), under the Patent Rights to make, have made, use, Sell, offer for Sale, import Licensed Products, and to practice the Licensed.

License Property

License relates to patent-pending technologies to control the behavior of mosquitoes and other blood-seeking insects with non-insecticidal agents.

'Field of Use' for Patent Rights relating to 'Insect Repellent and Attractants,' filed on March 4, 2009, United States patent application serial number 12/398,164, assigned to The Regents (UC Case Number 2009-334), and to 'Predicting Ligands for Odor Receptors and Olfactory Neurons Using Chemical Informatics' filed on April 16, 2011, United States patent application number PCT/US11/32804, assigned to The Regents (UC Case Number 2010-476)' means the use of the Licensed Products and the Licensed Methods for traps, chemical lures and repellants for flying hematophagous dipteran insects and cimicidean insects. Any use of the Licensed Products and Licensed Methods for other than traps, chemical lures and repellants for flying hematophagous dipteran insects and/or cimicidean insects is expressly excluded from the Field of Use. This definition for Field of Use specifically excludes the use of the Licensed Products or Licensed Methods for repellants for non-flying hematophagous dipteran insects, methods for repelling non-flying hematophagous dipteran insects, or methodology for screening new lure or repellant compounds or their insect targets or methods for olfactory reactivity assessment which incorporate Euclidian distance screening methodology.

'Field of Use' for Patent Rights relating to 'Odors for Asian Citrus Psylid Trapping, Repelling and Control,' filed on October 14, 2011, United States patent application serial number 61/547,559, assigned to The Regents (UC Case Number 2012-242) means the use of the Licensed Products and Licensed Methods for traps, chemical lures and repellants for Asian Citrus Psylid insects. Any use of the Licensed Products and Licensed Methods for those other than traps, chemical lures and repellants for Asian Citrus Psyllid insects is expressly excluded from the Field of Use.

Field of Use

The fields of use under the license are restricted to use in traps, chemical lures and repellants for certain specified types of insects.

The Licensee is working to commercialize a range of patent-pending insects with non-insecticidal agents, with the aim of lowering the spread of diseases such as malaria, Dengue fever, West Nile virus and other diseases that are transmitted by blood-seeking insects.

License Grant

The Licensee entered into a Distribution and License Agreement with a third-party for the purpose of developing a sensor array to be used in the Licensee's product. The Licensee will obtain exclusive rights to sell and distribute once a successful sensor prototype is developed.

License Property

The Licensor will develop the sensor.

Field of Use

The Licensee plans to develop nanotechnology to accurately measure chemicals of interest in any solid, liquid, or gas sample, anywhere, anytime.The Licensee will obtain exclusive rights to sell and distribute once a successful sensor prototype is developed.