[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 14, Volume 5]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

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

[CITE: 14CFR1245.302]



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                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE

 

                          SPACE ADMINISTRATION

 

PART 1245_PATENTS AND OTHER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS--Table of 

Contents

 

                  Subpart 3_NASA Foreign Patent Program

 

Sec. 1245.302  Inventions by NASA employees.



    (a) The foreign rights of NASA and of the NASA employee making an 

invention are determinable in accordance with Executive Orders 9865 and 

10096 and Government Patent Board Administrative Order No. 6 issued 

pursuant thereto.

    (b) Where NASA acquires an assignment of the domestic rights in an 

invention made by a NASA employee, NASA will also obtain an option to 

acquire the foreign rights, including the right to file foreign patent 

applications on the invention.

    (c) Where NASA is entitled to only a governmental license in the 

invention, the principal foreign rights in the invention are retained by 

the employee unless he agrees in writing to assign such rights to NASA.



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