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NASA Patent Offices Need to Coordinate Much Better Than They Do

By Keith Cowing
May 8, 2012
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NASA Patent Offices Need to Coordinate Much Better Than They Do
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NASA LaRC Notice of Intent To Grant an Exclusive License: Allotropica Technologies

… Information about other NASA inventions available for licensing can be found online at http://techtracs.nasa.gov/.

NASA KSC Notice of Intent To Grant Exclusive Copyright License: Diversified Industries, C&IS Inc.

… Information about other NASA inventions available for licensing can be found online at http://technology.nasa.gov/.

Keith’s note: These two official NASA notices regarding a “Notice of Intent To Grant an Exclusive License” were both published in today’s Federal Register. Curiously, the notice from KSC says: “Information about other NASA inventions available for licensing can be found online at http://technology.nasa.gov/. Yet the LaRC notice says: “Information about other NASA inventions available for licensing can be found online at http://techtracs.nasa.gov/. NASA’s patent people – in two different locations – have their notices issued simultaneously (they are on the same page) – yet they tell people to go to two different websites for the same official information – and in the case of the link used by LaRC – there is no website operating at http://techtracs.nasa.gov/.

One more example of how NASA’s technology folks simply do not coordinate with one another or pay attention to what they tell the public.

NASA’s Technology Transfer Continues To Be Uncoordinated, earlier post

Uncoordinated Technology Transfer at NASA, earlier post

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