DOE INVENTIONS PROGRAM
By DOE Staff
DOE INVENTIONS PROGRAM
Staff, "DOE Takes Over Energy-Related Inventions Program," R&D Magazine's Data Acquisition, July 1998, vol 2, no. 7, p 11.
EDITOR'S SUMMARY
Previously, the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology has been responsible for evaluating energy-related inventions. That task now has been turned over to the Office of Industrial Technologies, Information Resource Center, DOE, Mail Stop EE-24, 1000 Independence Ave. S.W., Washington, D.C. 20585. Interested parties may contact this office to solicit funding for new energy-related inventions. The NIST reports that over the 22 years of service they have evaluated 15,948 new inventions; 14,239 were rejected; 741 received ERIP (Energy-Related Inventions Program) endorsement.
We expect that DOE's rejection rate will be considerably higher if any new-energy inventions are submitted.
[A personal note: If an inventor wants his invention to NOT be classified, I would recommend that he submit it for a patent in the US LAST! Patrick Bailey.]
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Oct. 25, 1998.