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310 Government License Rights to Contractor-Owned Inventions Made Under Federally Sponsored Research and Development - 300 Ownership and Assignment
310 Government License Rights to Contractor-Owned Inventions Made Under Federally Sponsored Research and Development
Where a Government contractor retains U.S. domestic patent rights, the contractor is under an obligation by virtue of 35 U.S.C. 202(c)(6) to include the following statement at the beginning of the application and any patents issued thereon:
"The U.S. Government has a paid-up license in this invention and the right in limited circumstances to require the patent owner to license others on reasonable terms as provided for by the terms of (contract No. or Grant No.) awarded by (Agency)."
If reference is made in the first sentence of the application to prior copending applications of the applicant, such prior applications must be referred to in the first sentence of the specification ( 37 CFR 1.78(a) and MPEP § 201.11), and in this case the above "Government License Rights" statement should follow immediately as the second paragraph of the specification.
If there is no reference to an earlier application, the "Government License Rights" statement should appear as the first paragraph of the specification. See 37 CFR 1.77.
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