[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 32, Volume 5]
[Revised as of July 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 32CFR746.6]

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                       TITLE 32--NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                   CHAPTER VI--DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
 
PART 746_LICENSING OF GOVERNMENT INVENTIONS IN THE CUSTODY OF THE 
DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 746.6  Nonexclusive license.

    (a) Availability of licenses. Each government invention normally 
shall be made available for the granting of nonexclusive revocable 
licenses, subject to the provisions of any other licenses, including 
those under Sec. 746.8.
    (b) Terms of grant. (1) The duration of the license shall be for a 
period as specified in the license agreement, provided that the licensee 
complies with all the terms of the license.
    (2) The license shall require the licensees to bring the invention 
to the point of practical application within a period specified in the 
license, or such extended period as may be agreed upon, and to contine 
to make the benefits of the invention reasonably accessible to the 
public.
    (3) The license may be granted for all or less than all fields of 
use of the invention, and throughout the United States of America, its 
territories and possessions, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the 
District of Columbia, or in any lesser geographic portion thereof.
    (4) After termination of a period specified in the license 
agreement, the Chief of Naval Research may restrict the license to the 
fields of use and/or geographic areas in which the licensee has brought 
the invention to the point of practical application and continues to 
make the benefits of the invention reasonably accessible to the public.

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    (5) The license may extend to subsidiaries and affiliates of the 
licensee but shall be nonassignable without approval of the Chief of 
Naval Research, except to the successor of that part of the licensee's 
business to which the invention pertains.
    (6) The Government shall make no representation or warranty as to 
the validity of any licensed application(s) or patent(s), or of the 
scope of any of the claims contained therein, or that the exercise of 
the license will not result in the infringement of any other patent(s), 
nor shall the Government assume any liability whatsoever resulting from 
the exercise of the license.