2. Please briefly describe the scope of work of the contract under which the invention was made. 3. Prior to the contract, did you sell goods or services closely related to the invention: a. To the U.S. government December 1966 b. Commercially 4. Please identify the division or other major organizational element of your company (referred to hereafter as the inventing division) that made the invention. 5. Please indicate the sales volume of your company in the year the patent application was filed: 6. Approximately what percent of company sales was made in connection with government contracts and subcontracts in the year the patent application was filed? 7. Approximately what percent of the inventing division sales was made in connection with government contracts and subcontracts in the year the patent application was filed? 8. In what product line(s) did the inventing division or company specialize at the time the patent application was filed? (Please answer in terms of the inventing division if the group was responsible for developing inventions to the point of a marketable product or commercially useful process. In all other cases, please answer in terms of the company.) a. Inventing division ᄆ If question 10a is checked, please answer Part II, below. If you have exclusive rights to the invention, please also answer Part IV. b. Is expected to be used commercially in the future, even though it has not yet been used. If question 10b is checked, please answer Part III, below. If you have exclusive rights to the invention, please also answer Part IV. 0 c. Is not expected to be used commercially. If question 10c is checked, please answer question 11 immediately below. If you have exclusive rights to the invention, please also answer Part IV. 11. If the invention is not expected to be used commercially, please rank the applicable reasons for lack of commercial potential, giving the most important reason the rank of 1 and grading the others in numerical order. a. Development cost too high. b. Development revealed serious flaws. c. Development personnel not available. d. Invention became obsolete. e. Expected market failed to materialize. f. Technology too sophisticated. g. Too much competition. h. Channels of distribution lacking. i. Invention falls outside of company product line. PART II COMMERCIAL USE OF THE INVENTION 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) 5. Please indicate the approximate total cost of company-financed efforts that were required after completion of government work 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: 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) ☐ b. 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 sales volume of such products. 5. Please indicate the approximate total cost of company-financed efforts that will be required after completion of government work to develop the invention for commercial use: a. $ 0 b. None 6. Please estimate what percent of the costs specified in question 5 will be incurred for: a. Technical development % b. Production facilities c. Marketing and sales promotion % _% |