PART 401—RIGHTS TO INVENTIONS MADE BY NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS AND SMALL BUSINESS FIRMS UNDER GOVERNMENT GRANTS, CONTRACTS, AND COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS
- 401.1—Scope.
- 401.2—Definitions.
- 401.3—Use of the standard clauses at § 401.14.
- 401.4—Contractor appeals of exceptions.
- 401.5—Modification and tailoring of clauses.
- 401.6—Exercise of march-in rights.
- 401.7—Small business preference.
- 401.8—Reporting on utilization of subject inventions.
- 401.9—Retention of rights by contractor employee inventor.
- 401.10—Government assignment to contractor of rights in invention of government employee.
- 401.11—Appeals.
- 401.12—Licensing of background patent rights to third parties.
- 401.13—Administration of patent rights clauses.
- 401.14—Standard patent rights clauses.
- 401.15—Deferred determinations.
- 401.16—Electronic filing.
- 401.17—Submissions and inquiries.