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Partnering, licensing opportunities with ARS areavailable.

Agricultural Research Service (ARS) has more than 600 active patents and more than 300 active licenses. These technologies are available for licensing and partnership opportunities and can now can be accessed through Really Simple Syndication (RSS) as well as on the ARS web site.

RSS is

a convenient electronic format that allows users to view or receive all the new content from multiple sources in one location on their computer desktop. It is commonly used with news web sites, blogs, and other places with frequently updated content.

ARS regularly posts information about technologies the agency has available for licensing, as well as research for which it is seeking commercial partners for Cooperative Research and Development Agreements. To subscribe to this information via RSS, visit www.ars.usda.gov/Business/.

In addition to RSS feeds for ARS licensing and partnership opportunities, the agency offers a feed of daily news reports on ARS scientific discoveries. To subscribe to any of the agency's RSS feeds, visit: www.ars. usda.gov/News/docs.htm?docid=6697

RSS can be set at the user's preference to display new items on a web home page such as iGoogle or Yahoo or to email the new items. Users will first need to download one of a variety of RSS readers, which are available free of charge. For more information about ARS Office of Technology Transfer and partnering opportunities, see www.ars.usda.gov/Business/.

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