# Notice of Intent To Grant Exclusive Patent License; Wartsila-Lips, Inc.
**AGENCY:**
Department of the Navy, DoD.
**ACTION:**
Notice.
**SUMMARY:**
The Department of the Navy hereby gives notice of its intent to grant to Wartsila-Lips, Inc. a revocable, non-assignable, exclusive license in the United States to practice these Government-owned inventions in the field of use of shipboard mechanical seals, rudder stock seals, fin stabilizer seals, bulkhead seals, bow thruster seals, and pump seals, and described in: U.S. Patent No. 5,025,849, entitled “Centrifugal Casting of Composites,” issued June 25, 1991, Navy Case No. 70,890//U.S. Patent No. 6,129,134, entitled “Synthesis of Metal Matrix Composite,” issued October 10, 2000, Navy Case No. 79,069//U.S. Patent No. 6,129,135, entitled “Fabrication of Metal-Matrix Compositions,” issued October 10, 2000, Navy Case No. 77,732.
**DATES:**
Anyone wishing to object to the grant of this license has fifteen (15) days from the date of this notice to file written objections along with supporting evidence, if any.
**ADDRESSES:**
Written objections are to be filed with Carderock Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Code 3900, 9500 MacArthur Boulevard, West Bethesda, MD 20817-5700.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Mr. Dick Bloomquist, Director, Technology Transfer, Carderock Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Code 0117, 9500 MacArthur Boulevard, West Bethesda, MD 20817-5700, telephone (301) 227-4299.
Authority: 35 U.S.C. 207, 37 CFR part 404)
Dated: May 15, 2003.
P.C. Leblanc,
Lieutenant Commander, Judge Advocate General's Corps, U.S. Navy, Alternate Federal Register Liaison Officer.