Date(s) Inventor(s) Executed Oath:

The undersigned Inventor(s), in recognition of his (their) obligation as employee(s) of the Contractor to assign inventions to the Contractor, and pursuant to the obligations of the Contractor to the Government under the above contract hereby assigns (assign) to the United States of America, as represented by the above-identified agency, the entire right, title, and interest in and to each invention disclosed and claimed in the above U.S. patent application and any substitution, division, continuation-in-part, or continuation of such patent application and any application for reissue of any patent resulting from such patent application, subject to the reservation of the following license, if any, to the Contractor.

The license reserved to the Contractor shall extend to the Contractor's domestic subsidiaries and affiliates, if any, within the corporate structure of which the Contractor is a part and shall include the right to grant sublicenses of the same scope to the extent the Contractor was legally obligated to do so at the time the contract was awarded. The license shall be transferable only with approval of the agency except when transferred to the successor of that part of the Contractor's business to which such invention pertains.

The Inventor(s) further agrees (agree) to assist the Contractor and the Government upon request by furnishing any available information and documents, performing all acts, and doing all things which may be reasonably necessary to make this assignment effective.

The Contractor joins in and agrees to this assignment and except for the above reservation of a license, if any, relinquishes and assigns the entire right, title, and interest in and to such inventions, and further agrees to furnish to the Government upon request any available information and documents necessary for the prosecution of the aboveidentified application for patent.

(Agency Official)

(identify clause)

-) (date) included in Contract No -with (specify agency). This document is confirmatory of the paid-up license granted to the Government in this invention, patent application, and any resulting patent, and all other rights ac quired by the Government under the refer enced contract.

It is understood and agreed that this doc ument does not preclude the Government from asserting rights under the provisions of said contract or of any other agreement between the Government and the Contrac tor, or any other rights of the Government with respect to the above-identified invention.

The Government is hereby granted an irrevocable power to inspect and make copies of the above-identified patent application. Signed this day of 19[SEAL]

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ATTEST:

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Repeat above for each inventor.

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(c) Assignments, licenses, confirmatory instruments, and other papers evidencing any rights of the Government in patents or patent applications shall be recorded in the Statutory Register and/or documented in the Governmental Register maintained by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office pursuant to Executive Order 9424, February 18, 1944. Such documents shall be sent to the Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks, Attention: Assignment Branch, Washington, D.C. 20231, and when the document is to be recorded in the Statutory Register, shall be accompanied by the required fee. When the document is recorded in the Statutory Register, the Patent and Trademark Office places a copy of this recording in the Governmental Register. If the agency does not have the document recorded in the Statutory Register, it shall send two copies of the document to the Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks and request that these documents be filed in a designated section of the Governmental Register. The Governmental Register contains several sections including a secret, departmental, and public section. The secret section is for applications bearing a security classification; the departmental section is for documents which are available to the Government and to the public only upon approval of the Government agency; and the public section permits access to the public.

§1-9.109-6 Retention of greater rights.

(a) Request for the retention of greater domestic rights. A contractor's request for a determination that he retain greater domestic rights in an identified invention under the Patent Rights clauses of § 1-9.107-5 (a) or (c) or § 1-9.107-6 shall be submitted in writing to the agency.

(1) The request shall contain the following information:

(i) The prime contract number and the subcontract number, if applicable, under which the invention was made and an identification of the agency's contracting office;

(ii) A brief description of the invention or a copy of the invention disclosure;

(iii) The nature and extent of the rights desired;

(iv) A description of the development, risk capital and expense, and time required to bring the invention to the point of practical application;

(v) A statement of the contractor's plans and intentions to bring the invention to the point of practical application including:

(A) If further development and marketing are to be conducted by the contractor, a description of the facilities, personnel, and marketing outlets available for that purpose, and the extent to which such development is to be undertaken by the contractor or others on his behalf and/or;

(B) If licensing of the invention is intended, a brief description of the contractor's licensing program; and

(vi) A statement, where the invention falls within § 1-9.107-3(a), of the contractor's contribution when the contention is made that the Government's contribution to the invention is small compared to his contribution.

(2) Agencies may request additional information which would facilitate a determination that greater rights should be retained by the contractor. Illustrations of such items of information include the following:

(i) The relationship of the invention to a principal purpose of the contract; (ii) Any facts or information known to the contractor about whether the invention is intended to be developed by the Government for commercial use or is to be required for such use by governmental regulation;

(iii) The relationship, if any, of the invention to the public health, safety, or welfare; and

(iv) The field of science and technology of the invention and whether the Government has been the principal developer of this field.

(3) The contractor's employee(s) who made an invention in the course of or under a contract may also request, with proper authorization from his employer, a determination that he retain greater rights whenever the contract so provides. A copy of the authorization of the contractor-employer should be submitted with the employee-inventor's request for such a determination. In submitting the informa

tion required for a determination for the retention of greater rights as provided in § 1-9.109-6(a)(1), and in applying the other provisions of this paragraph, the term contractor shall be understood to also mean the employee-inventor.

(b) Reimbursement of costs for filing patent applications. In order to protect the interest of the Government and the party submitting a request for a determination that greater rights be retained, the filing of a United States patent application prior to the agency's determination is permissible. If an application on a Subject Invention is filed during the pendency of the determination, or within 60 days prior to the receipt of a request by the agency, the agency shall reimburse the party filing the application for the reasonable filing costs and for any patent prosecution as may have occurred as provided by § 1-15.205-26 or § 1-15.30922. Whenever such costs are not covered by § 1-15.205-26 or § 1-15.309-22, the agency may nevertheless reimburse the party causing the application to be filed for the reasonable costs of such filing and for any patent prosecution that may have occurred, subject to the availability of funds, provided:

(1) The agency determines that the party is not entitled to the retention of greater rights which are coextensive with the party's request; and

(2) Prior to reimbursement the party requesting such determination assigns the application to a Government agency and the agency accepts the assignment of the application.

(c) Agency consideration. The agency shall consider each request for a determination for the retention of greater domestic rights which was submitted within the period specified in the Patent Rights clause and shall make the determination in accordance with the criteria set out in paragraphs (d) or (e) of this section, as applicable. (d) Criteria for a determination for the retention of greater rights-Acquisition by the Government clause. When the request for a determination for the retention of greater rights relates to an invention reported under the Patent Rights clause of § 1-9.1075(a) or § 1-9.107-6(a):

(1) The requesting party may retain greater rights regardless of whether the invention is or is not directly related to a principal purpose of the contract when the agency finds that the invention comes within the criteria of § 1-9.107-3(a) (1) through (4); and

(i) The retention of greater rights is a necessary incentive to call forth private risk capital and expense to bring the invention to the point of practical application; or

(ii) The Government's contribution to the invention is small compared to that of the contractor.

(2) The requesting party also may retain greater rights when the agency finds that:

(i) The invention is not directly related to a principal purpose of the contract and does not come within the criteria of § 1-9.107-3(a)(1) through (4); and

(ii) The likelihood is that the invention will be more expeditiously developed to the point of practical application by the intentions and plans of the requesting party than by the activities of the Government.

(e) Criteria for a determination for the retention of greater rights-Deferred clause. When the request for a determination for the retention of greater rights relates to an invention reported under the Patent Rights clause of § 1-9.107-5(c) or § 1-9.1076(b),

(1) The requesting party may retain greater rights where the agency finds:

(i) The invention does not come within the criteria of § 1-9.107-3(a) (1) through (4); and

(ii) The likelihood is that the invention will be more expeditiously developed to the point of practical application by the intentions and plans of the requesting party than by the activities of the Government.

(2) The requesting party may retain greater rights when an agency finds that the invention comes within the criteria of § 1-9.107-3(a) (1) through (4); and

(i) The retention of greater rights is a necessary incentive to call forth risk capital and expense to bring the invention to the point of practical application; or

(ii) The Government's contribution to the invention is small compared to that of the contractor.

(f) Agency determination-Domestic rights. (1) The agency shall notify the party requesting a determination for the retention of greater rights of its decision. If the agency's determination is not coextensive with the party's request, the agency shall inform the party of the reasons on which the final action is based.

(2) Where the determination provides for the requesting party to retain title, the determination shall require that a domestic patent application be filed on the invention by the requesting party, and the following provisions shall apply:

(i) The application shall be filed within 6 months from the date of the determination, or such longer period as may be authorized in writing by the agency for good cause shown in writing by the requesting party;

(ii) For each patent application filed, the party shall:

(A) Within 2 months after such filing or within 2 months after the date of a determination if such patent application previously has been filed, deliver to the agency a copy of the application as filed, including the filing date and serial number;

(B) Include the following statement in the second paragraph of the specification of the application and any resulting patent: "The Government has rights in this invention pursuant to Contract No. (or Grant No. -) awarded by (identify the agency).";

(C) Within 6 months after such filing, or within 6 months after submission of the invention disclosure if the patent application has been previously filed, deliver to the agency a duly executed and approved instrument prepared by the Government fully confirmatory of all the rights to which the Government is entitled, and provide the agency an irrevocable power to inspect and make copies of the patent application filed;

(D) Provide the agency with a copy of the patent within 2 months after a patent is issued on the application; and

(E) Not less than 30 days before the expiration of the response period for any action required by the Patent and Trademark Office, notify the agency of any decision not to continue prosecution of the application and deliver to the agency executed instruments granting the Government a power of attorney to prosecute the application; and

(iii) If the requesting party fails to file an application within the prescribed time periods, decides not to continue prosecution of the application, or no longer desires to retain title, he shall convey to the Government, upon request, his entire right, title, and interest in the invention, and to any corresponding patent application or patent. The conveyance shall be made by delivering to the agency duly executed instruments (prepared by the Government) and, if applicable, such other papers as are deemed necessary to vest in the Government the entire right, title, and interest in the invention and any corresponding patent application, and to enable the Government to prosecute the application.

(3) Where the determination provides for the requesting party to retain title, the determination shall be subject to a license to the Government, and the licensing and the commercial use reporting requirements of paragraph (c) "Minimum rights acquired by the Government," of the Patent Rights clauses of § 1-9.107-5. The determination normally shall also be subject to any other reservation or condition deemed to be appropriate by the agency.

(g) Agency determination-Foreign rights. (1) A contractor's request for a determination that he retain greater foreign rights in an invention under the Patent Rights clauses of either § 1-9.107-5 (a) or (c) or § 1-9.107-6 (a) or (b) may accompany a request for a determination that he retain greater domestic rights under § 1-9.109-6(a), or may be submitted independently thereof. The request shall contain the following information:

(i) The prime contract number and the subcontract number, if applicable, under which the invention was made

and an identification of the agency's contracting office;

(ii) A brief description of the invention or a copy of the invention disclosure;

(iii) The countries in which the requesting party intends to file a patent application; and

(iv) Other information required by the agency.

(2) If the Government determines not to file a patent application on a Subject Invention of the contractor in any foreign country, the agency may authorize the requesting party to file a patent application on the invention in such foreign country and to retain the entire right, title, and interest therein if it determines such authorization to be in the public interest, subject to the license to the Government provided in paragraph (c) of the Patent Rights clause in § 1-9.107-5(a) or § 1-9.107-6(a).

(3) Where the determination includes a requirement that the requesting party file and prosecute a foreign patent application on the invention, the following provisions shall apply:

(i) The requesting party shall file and prosecute a patent application on the invention in (identify the foreign countries) in accordance with applicable statutes and regulations and within one of the following periods:

(A) Eight months from the date the corresponding United States patent application is filed by or on behalf of the requesting party; or if such an application is not filed, 6 months from the date of this agreement;

(B) Six months from the date a license is granted by the Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks to file foreign applications where such filing has been prohibited by security reasons; or (C) Such longer period as may be approved by the agency;

(ii) The requesting party shall notify the agency promptly of each foreign application filed and upon written request of the agency shall furnish an English version of the foreign application without additional compensation; and

(iii) If the requesting party files or causes to be filed a patent application on a Subject Invention in any foreign country, or if a patent is obtained on

such application, the party shall notify the agency, not less than 60 days before the expiration period for any action required by the foreign patent office, of any decision not to continue prosecution of the application or not to pay any maintenance fee covering the invention, and within such period shall deliver to the agency:

(A) Executed instruments granting to the Government power of attorney in the application;

(B) An English version of the application, if not previously provided, to the agency; and

(C) Upon request, a conveyance of the party's entire right, title, and interest in the invention in the foreign country, and to any corresponding patent application.

§ 1-9.109-7 Negotiation of institutional patent agreements.

(a) Information to be submitted by nonprofit organization. A nonprofit organization desiring to enter into an Institutional Patent Agreement with an agency shall be required to provide the agency with the following information:

(1) General information concerning the organization including:

(i) A copy of the organization's Articles of Incorporation;

(ii) A statement of the organization's purpose and aims; and

(iii) A statement indicating the source of the organization's funds;

(2) A copy of the organization's established patent policy, together with the date and manner of its adoption;

(3) The name, title, address, and telephone number of the officer responsible for administration of patent and invention matters and a description of staffing in this area, including all offices which contribute to the organization's patent management capabilities;

(4) A description of the organization's procedures for (A) identifying and reporting inventions and (B) for the evaluation of such inventions for inclusion in the organization's promotional program;

(5) A copy of the agreement signed by employees engaged in research and development, indicating their obliga