Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), operated by Battelle Memorial Institute under contract to the U.S. Department of Energy, solicits interest from companies interested in obtaining license rights to commercialize, manufacture and market the following technology.  License rights may be issued on an exclusive or nonexclusive basis and may include specific fields of use.  PNNL may also be available to licensee(s) to assist in further research and development of the technology under a SPP agreement, ACT agreement, or CRADA agreement.

THE TECHNOLOGY:  PNNL has designed a new concept for an improved tree delivery system that has more flexibility in material choices to chemical resistance, design reliability, and unpressurized storage until ready to use. The chemistries can span a variety of systems from plant food to pesticides with a variety of solvent systems added to them. The new design is a mechanical device that provides compression onto a POD containing the prescribed delivery quantity and treatment to the tree.  Current competing tree delivery device packaging design has exhibited leaking failures as well as incompatibility between the device material and the content chemistry. Other delivery systems are complicated, expensive, and labor intensive in installation and cleanup. Development of the conceptual design is ongoing.

For all inquiries, please reference Battelle IPID 31648-E.

NOTE:  THIS IS NOT A PROCUREMENT.  Any company interested in licensing this technology must respond with a letter of interest (may be submitted by e-mail) no later than thirty (30) days from the publication date of this Notice summarizing the company’s business and technical expertise and motivation for pursuing this opportunity.  Companies deemed appropriate will be provided with further information on the technology.  Such information may require an executed Nondisclosure Agreement.  Respondents wishing to enter into negotiations for a commercial license will be required to submit a business plan for the commercialization of the technology prior to licensee(s) selection and negotiations.  Please send letters of interest to the attention of the POC identified within this Notice, referencing Battelle IPID 31648-E.