[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 43, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 43CFR6.3]

[Page 169-170]
 
                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
PART 6--PATENT REGULATIONS--Table of Contents
 
                   Subpart A--Inventions by Employees
 
Sec. 6.3  Action by supervisory officials.

    (a) The preparation of an invention report and other official 
correspondence on patent matters is one of the regular duties of an 
employee who has made an invention and the supervisor of such employee 
shall see that he is allowed sufficient time from his other duties to 
prepare such documents. The supervisor shall ascertain that the 
invention report and other papers are prepared in conformity with the 
regulations of this part; and, before transmitting the invention report 
to the head of the bureau or office, shall check its accuracy and 
completeness, especially with respect to the circumstances in which the 
invention was developed, and shall add whatever comments he may deem to 
be necessary or desirable. The supervisor shall add to the file whatever 
information he may have concerning the governmental and commercial value 
of the invention.
    (b) The head of the bureau or office shall make certain that the 
invention report is as complete as circumstances permit. He shall report 
whatever information may be available in his agency concerning the 
governmental and commercial value of the invention, and the foreign 
countries in which it is likely that the invention would be most useful 
and would have the greatest commercial value.
    (c) If the employee inventor requests that the Solicitor determine 
his rights in the invention, the head of the bureau or office shall 
state his conclusions with respect to such rights.
    (d) The head of the bureau or office shall indicate whether, in his 
judgment, the invention is liable to be used in the public interest, and 
he shall set

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out the facts supporting his conclusion whenever the employee's 
invention report does not contain sufficient information on this point.