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LICENSING ACTIVITIES

Humegard
Don Phillips (ex staff)

License based on an invention for a litter separation system.

License Development
Attractive Royalties continuing.
Has significant
US potential
New staff member in EIS has previous contacts with Humes – development plan to enhance marketability, particularly in the
US is to be explored.

Humegard Stormwater Control System
Don Phillips (ex staff)

Licensed to SVC, Melbourne
Low level of royalties (approx $15,000 pa
No change

Talking Chinese Dictionary and Instant Translator
Myles Harding (ex ICT staff)

Non exclusive license of limited version to Oxford University Press (Hong Kong) as add-on to paper dictionary. Relatively small royalties expected from this license.
Royalties approx $1500 in 2006

MC2 MULTICELL - Licence Opportunity

The Multi-cell was developed at the Swinburne University of Technology in the early 1990’s.

The Multi-cell is a compact rectantgular precast concrete unit divided into 5 cells by diaphragms. Each diaphragm has a rectangular orifice along the bottom edge. As shown, flow enters the unit and is progressively throttled through each cell until the required amount of flow reduction is achieved at the outlet. the rectangular orifices are staggered to ensure that flows will circulate in each cell and keep debris and sediment suspended.

The units have been designed to be blockage free and it is claimed that no regular maintenance is required.

Further information on this can be found in the notes of a workshop delivered by Dr D I Phillips and Bruce W Bowditch.