[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 45, Volume 3]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 45CFR650.19]



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                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE

 

                 CHAPTER VI--NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

 

PART 650_PATENTS--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 650.19  Electronic invention handling.



    (a) Grantees must use the iEdison Invention Information Management 

System maintained by the National Institutes of Health to disclose NSF 

subject inventions. Detailed instructions for use of that system are 

provided at http://s-edison.info.nih.gov/iEdison/ and should be followed 

for NSF subject inventions except that:

    (1) All communications required must be provided electronically as a 

PDF or TIFF file through iEdison unless prior permission for another 

form of submission is obtained from the Patent Assistant.

    (2) NSF does not require either an Annual Utilization Report or a 

Final Invention Statement and Certification.

    (b) Questions on use of iEdison and requests for permission to 

submit material in other forms may be sent to the NSF Patent Assistant 

at



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patents@nsf.gov or at Office of the General Counsel, National Science 

Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22230.



[70 FR 43071, July 26, 2005]



    Appendix A to Part 650--Optional Format for Confirmatory License



    The following format may be used for the confirmatory license to the 

Government required by subparagraph (f)(5) of the Patent Rights clause 

in Sec. 650.4(a). Any equivalent instrument may also be used.



                 License to the United States Government



    This instrument confirms to the United States Government, as 

represented by the National Science Foundation, an irrevocable, 

nonexclusive, nontransferable, royalty-free license to practice or have 

practiced on its behalf throughout the world the following subject 

invention:



(invention title)



(inventor[s] name[s])



(patent application number and filing date)



(country, if other than United States)



(NSF Disclosure No.).



    This subject invention was made with NSF support through:



(grant or contract number)



(grantee or contractor).



    Principal rights to this subject invention have been left with the 

licensor.



 Signed:________________________________________________________________



 Name:__________________________________________________________________



 Title:_________________________________________________________________



 Date:__________________________________________________________________



    Accepted on behalf of the Government:



                          NSF Patent Assistant



 Date:__________________________________________________________________