Royalty Report: Environmental Control, Water Treatment, Energy & Environment – Collection: 5385

License Grant

JHU hereby grants and Company hereby accepts, an Exclusive License, with the right to sublicense others to make, have made, use, sell, and import the Licensed Products in the United States and worldwide under the Patent Rights.  Current licensee (U.S.) acquired this exclusive worldwide license to manufacture and market a proprietary process technology that improves the extraction of cryptosporidium and giardia from drinking water after a merger with the original licensee.

License Property

Any one of a family of hydrous aluminum silicate minerals, whose molecules enclose cations of sodium, potassium, calcium, strontium, or barium, or a corresponding synthetic compound, used chiefly as molecular filters and ion-exchange agents.  U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 09/006,999, entitled Apparatus for the Separation of Cystic Parasite Forms From Water.

Field of Use

Company desires a license under said Technology, Invention(s) and Licensed Patent(s) to develop, manufacture, use and distribute such products and processes throughout the world in all fields of use.

License Grant

Licensee is granted the exclusive right and license to Commercially Exploit Licensed Products in the Territory.

License Property

Method for removing arsenic species from an aqueous liquid using modified zeolite materials as disclosed in US patent applications 60/036,704 and 90/016,126.

Field of Use

The rights granted apply to any one of a family of hydrous aluminum silicate minerals, whose molecules enclose cations of sodium, potassium, calcium, strontium, or barium, or a corresponding synthetic compound, used chiefly as molecular filters and ion-exchange agents.

License Grant

We acquired the exclusive worldwide rights to the cryptosporidium detection system from the University.

License Property

A method and apparatus for the detection and classification of microorganisms in water as set forth in US Patent No. 5,616,457.

Cryptosporidium is an intestinal parasite that can live in the digestive tracts of humans and livestock.  It has been found in over 95% of all surface waters that have been tested worldwide.  These organisms are transmitted by drinking infected water and can cause gastrointestinal illnesses of varying severity.

Field of Use

The rights granted apply to water.

License Grant

The University & Government Organization hereby grants to the Company an exclusive license to make, use, sell, offer to sell, import, copy, modify, distribute, publicly display and perform, and to provide and practice the licensed product(s) and Licensed service(s) in the territory under the JHU/APL intellectual property in the licensed field.

License Property

JHU/APL Patent Rights
1. JHU/APL File No. 1734-SPL, US Patent No. 6,780,323, issued August 24, 2004 for “Polymer Based Permeable Membrane for Removal of Ions” and US patent application, serial no. 10/924,666, filed January 27, 2005, Publication No. 2005-0019302, published January 27, 2005 for “Polymer Based Permeable Membrane for Removal of Ions.”
2. JHU/APL File No. 1744-SPL, “Environmental Phosphate Pollution Removal Using a Selectively Permeable Molecularly Imprinted Polymer Membrane,” included in US Patent No. 6,780,232 issued August 24, 2004 for “Polymer Based Permeable Membrane for Removal of Ions” and US Patent Publication 2005-0019302 published January 27, 2005 for “Polymer Based Permeable Membrane for Removal of Ions.”
3. JHU/APL File No. 1745-SPL, “Environmental Nitrate Pollution Removal Using a Selectively Permeable Molecularly Imprinted Polymer Membrane” included in US Patent No. 6,780,232 issued August 24, 2004 for “Polymer Based Permeable Membrane for Removal of Ions” and US Patent Publication 2005-0019302 published January 27, 2005 for “Polymer Based Permeable Membrane for Removal of Ions.”
4. JHU/APL File No. 2112-1331, “Process for Preparing Vinyl Substituted Beta-Diketones” pending US patent application serial no. 11/127897, filed May 12, 2005.
5. JHU/APL File No. 2292-SPL, “The Preparation of Molecularly Imprinted Polymer Ion-exchange Resin Beads and Their Use as Sequestering Agents for Toxic or Economically Useful Ions,” US provisional application no. 60/736376, filed November 14, 2005.

Field of Use

Licensed Field shall mean drinking water safety, wastewater treatment, and water-based mining operations using filtration, treatment, reclamation and extraction processes; all other fields of use are specifically excluded.

License Grant

Whereas, Lincensor represents that it has invented and developed certain intellectual property hereinafter referred to as Technology, useful in filtration of sodium from water produced in the process of extracting methane in wet bed mining situation.  Licensee desires to obtain from Licensor, and Licensor is willing to transfer to Licensee the Technology.

Field of Use

The technology concerns treatment technologies to provide pure safe water around the world. This technology is specifically designed to treat coal bed methane associated water to make it fit for discharge in the water bodies or for use in irrigation. The water as produced has unacceptable levels of sodium, barium, iron and other inorganic contaminants that pose a threat to the soil and aquatic life in the local habitat.

License Grant

The Company’s subsidiary in France, received an exclusive license from Licensor, its current President, and chairman to manufacture licensed products, in both France and in a country of its choice.

License Property

The Licensed Process is a water treatment system.  First, the water is filtered through a standard preliminary filter calibrated to 5 microns, for elimination of large impurities.  Second, the water undergoes treatment by Ultra Violet light located in a stainless steel chamber also equipped with a quartz tube. The 25 Watt U.V. Philips lamp destroys a large amount of bacteria.  This is a well-established germicidal process.  The more bacteria eliminated by the U.V. lamp, the longer the useful life of the licensed cartridge.  Third, the water passes through an anti-limestone module which prevents the deposit of limestone without eliminating calcium or magnesium, two (2) essential minerals. Last, the water is brought into contact with the licensed cartridge by a regulator.  By virtue of its active carbon compound, the cartridge eliminates heavy metals, chlorine and the bad tastes and odors present in the water.

License Grant

The French Licensee acquired the exclusive license for the Cartis patents and Cartis trademark from a founder of France.

License Property

The CARTIS Process is a water treatment system.  First,  the water is filtered through a standard preliminary filter calibrated to 5 microns, for elimination of large impurities.  Second,  the water undergoes treatment by Ultra Violet light located in a stainless steel chamber also equipped with a quartz tube.  The 25 Watt U.V. Philips lamp destroys a large amount of bacteria.  This is a well-established germicidal process.  The more bacteria  eliminated by the U.V. lamp, the longer the useful life of the CARTIS cartridge.  Third,  the water  passes  through an anti-limestone module which prevents the deposit of limestone without eliminating calcium or magnesium,  2 essential minerals.  Last, the water is brought into contact with the CARTIS cartridge by a regulator.  By virtue of its active carbon compound, the cartridge eliminates heavy metals, chlorine and the bad tastes and odors present in the water.