Prompt disclosure

Prompt disclosure of a TSCA violation means only one thing in the Audit Policy self-reporting within twenty-one days of discovering the potential violation, or the following business day if the twenty-first day is on a weekend or Federal holiday. ... 

The principal elements to meet to get the benefits of the Small Business Compliance Policy are voluntary discovery, prompt disclosure, expeditious correction, no relevant history of violations, no serious harm, and no criminal activities. Each of these is described below. 

In 1957 Davison, Pinner, and Worrall (8) published data on the radiation polymerization of isobutene, which could best be explained as an ionic process. These initial findings were further confirmed by subsequent investigations (7, 9, 26, 27), Needless to say, these disclosures prompted reinvestigation of the question of radiation-induced ionic polymerizations in other systems. 

Viewed from the other side, one can consider the alternative. If there were no possibility of exclusivity, what inducement would exist for the full disclosure of one s invention If the invention had any value at all, the full disclosure in the absence of exclusivity would prompt a great deal of copying by others not saddled with the cost of research and development. In such a scenario, there would be little inducement for research and even less inducement for disclosure of the research the things most likely to be disclosed would be those with the least value. As a result of these considerations, the system works best when the equation is balanced.1... 

To avoid the loss of patent rights it is imperative that some mechanism be established that will enable scientists to promptly disclose inventions to the parties and permit a rapid decision on patent filings. Incorporation (in the sponsored research agreement) of a time table for invention disclosure and patent filing is one way to achieve this goal (e.g., all inventions will be disclosed in writing to the corporate sponsor within 30 days after they are disclosed to the university by the inventor). 

Prompted by Harvard s disclosure that it was considering establishment of a commercial genetic-engineering company, this article reports on a range of Issues and activities in the university-industry area. In addition to the standard examples of Exxon-MIT and Harvard-Monsanto, mention is made of a Purdue-Control Data project on computer design and production, and establishment by Estee Lauder of an Institute of Dermatology at Johns Hopkins University. 

With this system, the ownership of patents would be deter mined promptly, and the public would benefit from early publican tion of the patent disclosure. 

Without further elaboration, it is believed that one skilled in the art, using the preceding description, practice the present invention to its fnllest extent. The following detailed examples describe how to prepare the various compounds and/or perform the various processes of the invention and are to be construed as merely illustrative, and not limitations of the preceding disclosure in any way whatsoever. Those skilled in the art will promptly recognize appropriate variations from the procedures both as to reactants and as to reaction conditions and techniques. ... 

The Web site provides for better follow-up. After collecting initial information about the seriousness of the incident, the Web site has prompts that display information for the reporter about disclosure to the family and about the need to immediately contact the department of risk management. 

EPA has had an audit pohcy in place since 1995 that provides incentives for facihties that have discovered a compliance violation to report it and make every effort to come into compliance. The agency s Incentives for Self-Policing Discovery, Disclosure, Correction, and Prevention of violations applies to entities that volrmtarily discover, promptly disclose, and expeditiously correct noncompliance. 

OPERATION RED HAT. In 1971, the United States relocated its chemical weapon (CW) stockpile from Okinawa to the Johnston Atoll, located in the Pacific Ocean southeast of Hawaii. The relocation was given the code name Operation Red Hat and was also known as the Kalama Express. Operation Red Hat was prompted by public disclosure of the existence of the CW stockpile on Okinawa, which generated opposition to its presence by locals and others, who deemed such a U.S. stockpile on the heavily populated island to be risky. See also OPERATION STEEL BOX. 

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