[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: 43CFR6.53]

[Page 174]
 
                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
PART 6--PATENT REGULATIONS--Table of Contents
 
                           Subpart B--Licenses
 
Sec. 6.53  Unpatented inventions.

    The Secretary of the Interior may also have transferable interests 
in inventions which are not yet patented. In order to protect the patent 
rights of the Department, for the eventual benefit of the public, a 
license may be granted with respect to such an invention only if (a) a 
patent application has been filed thereon; (b) the invention has been 
assigned to the United States, as represented by the Secretary of the 
Interior, and the assignment has been recorded in the Patent Office; and 
(c) the Solicitor of the Department is of the opinion that the issuance 
of a license will not prejudice the interests of the Government in the 
invention. Such licenses shall be upon the same terms as licenses 
relating to patents of the same class, as described in Sec. 6.52.