PREFACE December, 1970 This publication sets forth the Findings of Fact and Recommendations of the NASA Inventions and Contributions Board concerning selected petitions for waiver of rights by the United States to inventions made or that may be made in the performance of work under contracts with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, determined by the Administrator pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 2457(f). as In addition, lists of those petitions for which Findings of Fact are not digested in this publication, and of those on which action has been deferred by the Board, are included. To assist in locating requests for waivers on which Findings of Fact and Recommendations have been made and digested, they are identified in this publication by: 1. The year in which the applicable NASA Patent Waiver Regulations became effective, 2. Name of Petitioner, 3. Number of the contract or Request for Proposal, 4. Description of Contract or Invention, 5. Headnotes of the salient issues raised by the Petition, 6. Rationale used by the Inventions and Contributions Board in arriving at its recommendation. At least annually, additional Findings of Fact and Recommendations of the NASA Inventions and Contributions Board on new petitions will be published as supplements to this Handbook. For subscribers other than NASA installations, copies may be purchased from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402. Eneth Brackett Ernest W. Brackett DISTRIBUTION: SDI (SIQ) Inventions and Contributions Board Recommendations on Patent Waiver Petitions ... Inventions and Contributions Board Recommendations on Patent (For Lists of Waiver Numbers and Petitioners, under these . APPENDIX C: Availability of Patent Waiver Request Forms. C-1 Litton Industries, Data Systems Division UNIVAC, Division of Sperry Rand Corp. UNIVAC, Division of Sperry Rand Corp. UNIVAC, Division of Sperry Rand Corp. UNIVAC, Division of Sperry Rand Corp. Laboratory for Electronics, Inc. Dynamics Corp. Vincent J. Cushing (Engineering-Physics Co.) Douglas Aircraft Company General Electric Company Electro-Optical Systems, Inc. General Electric Company 101 105 107 109 113 115 117 119 123 125 127 BW-383 W-384 BW-385 W-386 W-388 Granted Granted Granted Denied Granted Granted 129 131 133 137 139 141 |