[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 14, Volume 5]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 14CFR1245.302]

[Page 211-212]
 
                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE
 
                   CHAPTER V--NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND
                          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

[[Page 212]]

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.