LICENSING (To be completed only by contractors having exclusive rights to the invention) 2. If the answer to question 1 is "yes," please briefly identify the methods used to make the invention available for licensing. 3. Have there been specific requests to license the invention (apart from automatic cross licensing)? Please briefly describe the invention. BACKGROUND INFORMATION How did your company learn that the invention was available for licensing? Prior to the license, did you sell goods or services closely related to the invention: 0 a. To the U.S. Government b. Commercially Please indicate the annual sales volume of your company at the time the license was obtained: a. Less than $5 million c. $50-$200 million b. $5 - $50 million Approximately what percent of company sales was made in connection with government contracts and subcontracts at the time the license was obtained? 0 b. Is expected to be used commercially by your company in the future, even though it has not yet been used. If question 7b is checked, please answer Part III, below. ᄆ c. Is not expected to be used commercially. If question 7c is checked, please answer only question 8, immediately below. 1. If you do not intend to use the invention commercially, please rank the applicable reasons for lack of commercial potential numerically by assigning the most important reason the rank of (1) and grading the others in numerical order. .a. Development cost too high. b. Development showed serious flaws. c. Development personnel not available. d. Invention became obsolete. e. Expected market failed to materialize. f. Technology too sophisticated for commercial use. g. Channels of distribution lacking. h. Invention falls outside of company product line. i. Other (please specify). PART II COMMERCIAL USE OF THE INVENTION 1. Please state briefly how the invention is used commercially. (For example, "as a component of the x product," or "in manufacturing y products," and so forth.) 2. What role did the invention play in such use? critically important role ᄆ supporting role 5. Please indicate the approximate total cost of company-financed efforts that were required to develop the invention for commercial use: a. $ 0 b. None 6. Please estimate what percent of the costs specified in question 5 were incurred for: a. Technical development % b. Production facilities c. Marketing and sales promotion ___% % PART III INVENTION WITH EXPECTED FUTURE USE 1. Please state briefly how your company intends to use the invention commercially. (For example, "as a component of the x product," or "in manufacturing y products," and so forth.) 2. What role is the invention expected to play in such use? 0 a. critically important role b. supporting role 19 3. Please estimate when the invention will first be used commercially. 4. If the invention is expected to be incorporated in a product(s), please estimate the anticipated volume of product sales. 5. Please indicate the approximate total cost of company-financed efforts that will be required to develop the invention for commercial use: a. $ ᄆ b. None 6. Please estimate what percent of the costs specified in question 5 will be incurred for: |