[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 48, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 48CFR27.305-4]

[Page 511]
 
            TITLE 48--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM
 
                CHAPTER 1--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION
 
PART 27_PATENTS, DATA, AND COPYRIGHTS--Table of Contents
 
          Subpart 27.3_Patent Rights Under Government Contracts
 
Sec.  27.305-4  Conveyance of invention rights acquired by the Government.

    (a) Agencies are responsible for those procedures necessary to 
protect the Government's interest in subject inventions. When the 
Government acquires the entire right, title, and interest in an 
invention by contract, this is normally accomplished by an assignment 
either from each inventor to the contractor and from the contractor to 
the Government, or from the inventor to the Government with the consent 
of the contractor, so that the chain of title from the inventor to the 
Government is clearly established. When the Government's rights are 
limited to a license, there should be a confirmatory instrument to that 
effect.
    (b) The form of conveyance of title from the inventor to the 
contractor must be legally sufficient to convey the rights the 
contractor is required to convey to the Government. Agencies may, by 
supplemental instructions, develop suitable assignments, licenses, and 
other papers evidencing any rights of the Government in patents or 
patent applications, including such instruments as may be required to be 
recorded in the Statutory Register or documented in the Government 
Register maintained by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office pursuant to 
Executive Order 9424, February 18, 1944.