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stances, unless the grantee, its licensees or its assignees demonstrate to the Government, at the Government's request, that effective steps have been taken within three (3) years after a patent was issued on any such invention to bring it to the point of practical application, or that it has been made available for licensing royalty-free or in terms that are reasonable in the circumstances, or can show cause why the time period should be extended, or

(b) On a nonexclusive or exclusive basis on terms that are reasonable in the circumstances to the extent that the invention is required for public use by Governmental regulations or as may be necessary to fulfill health or safety needs or for such other public purposes as are stipulated in this grant; and

(iii) The grantee shall file in due form and within six (6) months of the granting of such greater rights a U.S. patent application claiming the Subject Invention and shall furnish, as soon as practicable, the information and materials required under paragraph (2) of Section F. As to each Subject Invention in which the grantee has been given greater rights, the grantee shall notify the Project Officer at the end of six (6) months period if he has failed to file or caused to be filed a patent application covering such invention. If the grantee has filed or caused to be filed such an application within a six (6) month period but elects not to continue prosecution of such application, he shall so notify the Project Officer, and EPA Patent Counsel not less than forty-five (45) days before the expiration of the response period. In either of the situations covered by the two immediately preceding sentences, the Government shall be entitled to all right, title, and interest in such Subject Invention subject to the reservation to the grantee of a revocable royaltyfree, nonexclusive license therein.

(iv) The grantee shall, if requested by the Government, either before or after final closeout of this grant, furnish written reports at reasonable intervals, as to:

(a) The commercial use that is being made or is intended to be made of such invention; (b) The steps taken by the grantee to bring such invention to the point of practical application, or to make the invention available for licensing.

(5) Even in the event the Government elects to take the full and entire domestic title and interest in a Subject Invention, the Project Officer may request, prior to grant closeout, that the grantee prepare a domestic patent application for filing in the United States Patent Office on such invention and deliver it to the Project Officer for filing by EPA. Reasonable costs incurred for the preparation of such application or any revision thereof requested by EPA shall be allowable project costs.

C. Foreign rights and obligations. (1) Subject to the waiver provisions of paragraph (2) of this section C., it is agreed that the entire foreign right, title, and interest in any Subject Invention shall be in the Government, as represented for this purpose by the Administrator. The Government agrees to grant and does hereby grant to the grantee a royalty-free nonexclusive license to practice the invention under any patent obtained on such Subject Invention in any foreign country. The license shall extend to existing and any future companies controlled by, controlling or under common control with the grantee, and shall be assignable to the successor of the part of the grantee's business to which such invention pertains.

(2) The grantee may request the foreign rights to a Subject Invention at any time subsequent to the reporting of such invention. The response to such request and notification thereof to the grantee will not be unreasonably delayed. The Government will waive title to the grantee to such Subject Invention in foreign countries in which the Government will not file an application for a patent for such invention, or otherwise secure protection therefor. Whenever the grantee is authorized to file in any foreign country the Government will not thereafter proceed with filing in such country except on the written agreement of the grantee, unless such authorization has been revoked pursuant to paragraph (3) of this Section C.

(3) In the event the grantee is authorized to file a foreign patent application on a Subject Invention, the Government agrees that it will use its best efforts not to publish a description of such invention until a United States or foreign application on such invention is filed, whichever is earlier, but neither the Government, its officers, agents or employees shall be liable for an inadvertent publication thereof. If the grantee is authorized to file in any foreign country, he shall, on request of the Project Officer, furnish to the Government a patent specification in English within six (6) months after such authorization is granted, prior to any foreign filing and without additional compensation. The Project Officer, after concurrence by the EPA Patent Counsel, may revoke such authorization on failure on the part of the grantee to file any such foreign application within nine (9) months after such authorization has been granted.

(4) If the grantee files patent applications in foreign countries pursuant to authorization granted under paragraph (2) of this section C., the grantee agrees to grant to the Government an irrevocable, nonexclusive, paid-up license to practice by or on its behalf the invention under any patents which may issue thereon in any foreign country. Such license shall include the right to issue sublicenses pursuant to any existing

or future treaties or agreements between the Government and a foreign government for uses of such foreign government, provided the Administrator determines that it is in the national interest to acquire such right to sublicense.

(5) In the event the Government or the grantee elects not to continue prosecuting any foreign application or to maintain any foreign patent on a Subject Invention, the other party shall be notified no less than sixty (60) days before the expiration of the response period or maintenance tax due date, and upon written request, shall execute such instruments (prepared by the party wishing to continue the prosecution or to maintain such patent) as are necessary to enable such party to carry out its wishes in this regard.

D. Licenses under background patents. (1) The grantee agrees that he will make his Background Patent(s) available for use in conjunction with a Subject Invention or Specified Work Object for use in the specific field of technology in which the purpose of this grant or the work called for or required thereunder falls. This may be done (i) by making available, in quality, quantitiy, and price all of which are reasonable to the circumstances, an embodiment of the Subject Invention or Specified Work Object, which incorporates the invention covered by such Background Patent, as a Commercial Item, or (ii) by the sale of an embodiment of such Background Patent as a Commercial Item in a form which can be employed in the practice of a Subject Invention or Specified Work Object or can be so employed with relatively minor modifications, or (iii) by the licensing of the domestic Background Patent(s) at reasonable royalty to responsible applicants on their request.

(2) If the Administrator determines after a hearing that the quality, quantity, or price of embodiments of the Subject Invention or Specified Work Object sold or otherwise made available commercially as set forth in paragraph (D)(1)(i) is unreasonable in the circumstances, he may require the grantee to license such domestic Background Patent to a responsible applicant at reasonable terms, including a reasonable royalty, for use in the specific field of technology in which the purpose of this grant or the work called for thereunder falls, and for use in connection with (i) a Specified Work Object, or (ii) a Subject Invention.

(3) (i) When a license to practice a domestic Background Patent in conjunction with a Subject Invention or Specified Work Object is requested in writing by a responsible applicant, for use in the specific field of technology in which the purpose of this grant or the work called for thereunder falls, and such Background Patent is not available as set forth in paragraph D(1) (i) or (ii), the grantee shall have six (6) months

from the date of his receipt of such request to decide whether to make such background Patent so available. The grantee shall promptly notify EPA in writing of any request for a license to practice a Background Patent in conjunction with a Subject Invention or Specified Work Object, which the grantee or his exclusive licensee wish to attempt to make available as set forth in paragraph D(1) (i) or (ii).

(ii) If the grantee decides to make such domestic Background Patent so available either by himself or by an exclusive licensee, he shall so notify the Administrator within the said six (6) months, whereupon the Administrator shall then designate the reasonable time within which the grantee must make such Background Patent available in reasonable quantity and quality, and at a reasonable price. If the grantee or his exclusive licensee decides not to make such Background Patent so available, or fails to make it available within the time designated by the Administrator, the Background Patent shall be licensed to a responsible applicant at reasonable including a reasonable royalty, in conjunction with (a) a Specified Work Object, or (b) a Subject Invention, and may be limited to the specific field of technology in which the purpose of this grant or the work called for thereunder falls.

(iii) The grantee agrees to grant or have granted to a designated applicant, upon the written request of the Government, a nonexclusive license at reasonable terms, including reasonable royalties, under any foreign Background Patent in furtherance of any treaty or agreement between the Government of the United States and a foreign government for practice by or on the behalf of such foreign government, if an embodiment of the Background Patent is not commercially available in that country; Provided, however, That no such license will be required unless the Administrator determines that issuance of such license is in the national interest. Such license may be limited by the licensor to the practice of such Background Patent in conjunction with a Subject Invention or a Specified Work Object and for use in only the specific field of technology in which the purpose of this grant or the work called for thereunder falls.

(iv) The grantee agrees it will not seek injunctive relief or other prohibition of the use of the invention in enforcing its rights against any responsible applicant for such license and that it will not join with others in any such action. It is understood and agreed that the foregoing shall not affect the grantee's right to injunctive relief or other prohibition of the use of Background Patents in areas not connected with the practice of a Subject Invention or Specified

Work Object in the specific field of technology in which the purpose of this grant or the work called for thereunder falls, or where the grantee has made available a Commercial Item as set out in paragraph D(1) (i) or (ii).

(4) For use in the specific field of technology in which the purpose of this grant or the work called for thereunder falls, and in conjunction with a Subject Invention or a Specified Work Object, the grantee agrees to grant to the Government a license under any Background Patent. Such license shall be nonexclusive, nontransferable, royaltyfree and worldwide to practice such patent which is not available as a Commercial Item as specified in paragraph D(1)(ii) for use of the Federal Government in connection with pilot plants, demonstration plants, test beds, and test modules. For all other Government uses, any royalty charged the Government under such license shall be reasonable and shall give due credit and allowance for the Government's contribution, if any, toward the making, commercial development, or enhancement of the invention(s) covered by the Background Patent.

(5) Any license granted under a process Background Patent for use with a specified Work Object shall be additionally limited to employment of the Background Patent under conditions and parameters reasonably equivalent to those called for or employed under this grant.

(6) It is understood and agreed that the grantee's obligation to grant licenses under Background Patents shall be limited to the extent of the grantee's right to grant the same without breaching any unexpired contract it had entered into prior to this grant or prior to the identification of a Background Patent, or without incurring any obligation to another solely on account of said grant. However, where such obligation is the payment of royalties or other compensation, the grantee's obligation to license his Background Patents shall continue and the reasonable license terms shall include such payments by the applicant as will at least fully compensate the grantee under said obligation to another.

(7) On the request of the Project Officer, the grantee shall identify and describe any license agreement which would limit his right to grant licenses under any Background Patent.

(8) In the event the grantee has a parent or an affiliated company, which has the right to license a patent which would be a Background Patent if owned by the grantee, but which is not available as a Commercial Item as specified in paragraph_D(1)(i) or (ii), and a qualified applicant requests a license under such patent for use in the specific field of technology in which the purpose of this contract or the work called for thereunder falls, and in connection with the

use of a Subject Invention or Specified Work Object, the grantee shall, at the written request of the Government, recommend to his parent company, or affiliated company, as the case may be, the granting of the requested license on reasonable terms, including reasonable royalties, and actively assist and participate with the Government and such applicant as to technical matters and in liaison functions between the parties, as may reasonably be required in connection with any negotiations for issuance of such license. For the purpose of this paragraph, (i) a parent company is one which owns or controls, through direct or indirect ownership of more than 50 percent of the outstanding stock entitled to vote for the election of directors, another company or other entity, and (ii) affiliated companies are companies or other entities owned or controlled by the same parent company.

E. Related inventions. At the request of the Project Officer made during or subsequent to the term of this grant including any extensions for additional research and development work, the grantee shall furnish information concerning any invention which appears to the Project Officer to reasonably have the possibility of being a Subject Invention.

All information supplied by the grantee hereunder shall be of such nature and character as to enable the Project Officer, with the concurrence of the EPA Patent Counsel, reasonably to ascertain whether or not the invention concerned is a Subject Invention. Failure to furnish such information called for herein shall, in any subsequent proceeding, place on the grantee the burden of going forward with the evidence to establish that such invention is not a Subject Invention. If such evidence is not then presented, the invention shall be deemed to be a Subject Invention. After receipt of information furnished pursuant hereto, the Project Officer shall not unduly delay rendering his opinion on the matter. The Project Officer's decision shall be subject to the Disputes Clause of the grant. The grantee may furnish the information required under this Section E as grantee confidential information, which shall be identified as such.

F. General provisions. (1) The grantee shall obtain the execution of and deliver to the Project Officer any document, including domestic patent applications (see B(5) hereof), relating to Subject Inventions as the Project Officer may require under the terms hereof to enable the Government to file and prosecute patent applications therefor in any country and to evidence and preserve its rights. Each party hereto agrees to execute and deliver to the other party on its request suitable documents to evidence and

preserve license rights derived from this Appendix.

(2) The Government and the grantee shall promptly notify each other of the filing of a patent application on a Subject Invention in any country, identifying the country or countries in which such filing occurs and the date and serial number of the application, and on request shall furnish a copy of such application to the other party and a copy of any action on such patent application by any Patent Office and the responses thereto. Any applications or responses furnished shall be kept confidential, unless the Government has title to the invention.

(3) Any other provisions of this Appendix notwithstanding, the Project Officer, or any authorized EPA representative shall, until the expiration of three (3) years after submission of the final financial status report under this grant, have the right to examine in confidence any books, records, documents, and other supporting data of the grantee which the Project Officer or any authorized EPA representative shall reasonably deem directly pertinent to the discovery or identification of Subject Inventions or to the compliance by the grantee with the requirements of this Appendix.

(4) Notwithstanding the grant of a license under any patents to the Government pursuant to any provisions of this Appendix, the Government shall not be prevented from contesting the validity, enforceability, scope, or title of such licensed patent.

(5) The grantee shall furnish to the Project Officer every 12 months, or earlier as may be agreed in this grant (the initial period shall commence with the date of award of this grant) an interim report listing all Subject Inventions required to be disclosed which were made during the interim reporting period or certify that there are no such unreported inventions.

(6) The grantee shall submit a final report under this grant listing all Subject Inventions required to be disclosed which were made in the course of the work performed under this grant, and all subagreements subject to this Appendix. If to the best of the grantee's knowledge and belief, no Subject Inventions have resulted from this grant, the grantee shall so certify to the Project Officer. If there are no such subagreements, a negative report is required.

(7) The interim and final reports submitted under paragraphs F (5) and (6) and Subject Invention disclosures required under paragraph B (1) shall be submitted on EPA forms which will be furnished by the Project Officer on request. Any equivalent form approved by the Project Officer with the concurrence of the EPA Patent Counsel may be used in lieu of EPA forms. Such reports and disclosures shall be submitted in triplicate.

(8) Any action required by or of the Government under this patent provision shall be undertaken by the Project Officer or other authorized EPA official as its duly authorized representative unless otherwise stated.

(9) The Government may duplicate and disclose reports and disclosures of Subject Inventions required to be furnished by the grantee pursuant to this Appendix without additional compensation.

(10) The grantees shall furnish to the Project Officer, in writing, and as soon as practicable, information as to the date and identity of any first public use, sale or publication of any Subject Invention made by or known to the grantee, or of any contemplated publication of the grantee.

(11) The Administrator shall determine the responsibility of an applicant for a license under any provision of this patent provision when this matter is in dispute and his determination thereof shall be final and binding.

(12) The grantee shall furnish promptly to the Project Officer or other authorized EPA official on request an irrevocable power to inspect and make copies of each U.S. patent application filed by or on behalf of the grantee covering any Subject Invention.

(13) The grantee shall include in the first paragraph in any U.S. patent application which it may file on a Subject Invention the following statement:

This invention resulted from work done under Grant No.-- with the Environmental Protection Agency and is subject to the terms and provisions of said Grant.

(14) All information furnished in confidence pursuant to this Appendix shall be clearly identified by an appropriate written legend. Such information shall be subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. 552, and shall in any event cease to be confidential if it is or becomes generally available to the public, or has been made or becomes available to the Government (i) from other sources, or (ii) by the grantee without limitation as to use, or was already known to the Government when furnished to it.

(15) Any action by the Project Officer affecting the disposition of rights to patents or inventions pursuant to this Appendix shall be taken only after review by the Office of General Counsel.

G. Warranties. (1) The grantee warrants that whenever he has divested himself of the right to license any Background Patent (or any invention owned by the grantee which could become the subject of a Background Patent) prior to the date of this grant, such divestment was not done to avoid the licensing requirements set forth in Section D of this Appendix. After a Back

ground Patent, or invention which could become the subject of a Background Patent, is identified, the grantee shall take no action which shall impair the performance of his obligation to issue Background Patent licenses pursuant to this grant.

(2) The grantee warrants that he will take no action which will impair his obligation to assign to the Government any invention first actually conceived or reduced to practice in the course of or under this grant.

(3) The grantee warrants that he has full authority to make obligations of this Appendix effective, by reason of agreements with all of the personnel, including consultants who might reasonably be expected to make inventions, and who will be employed in work on the project for which the grant has been awarded, to assign to the grantee all discoveries and inventions made within the scope of their employment.

H. Subagreements. This Appendix shall be included in any subagreement over $10,000 under this grant where a purpose of the subagreement is the conduct of experimental, developmental, research, or demonstration work, unless the Grant Approving Official with the concurrence of the EPA Patent Counsel, authorizes the omission or modification of this Appendix. The grantee shall not acquire any rights to Subject Inventions made under such subagreement for his own use (as distinguished from such rights as may be required solely to fullfil his grant obligations to the Government in performance of this grant). Upon completion of work under such a subagreement, the grantee shall promptly notify the Project Officer in writing of such completion, and shall upon request furnish a copy of the subagreement to the Project Officer. The grantee hereby assigns to the Government all rights of the grantee to enforce the obligations of the party to such subagreement with respect to Subject Inventions, Background Patents, and pursuant to Section E of this Appendix. The grantee shall cooperate with the Government at the Government's request and expense in any legal action to secure the Government's rights.

APPENDIX C-RIGHTS IN DATA AND COPYRIGHTS

1. The term "Subject Data" as used herein includes writings, technical reports, sound recordings, magnetic recordings, computer programs, computerized data bases, pictorial reproductions, plans, drawings, specifications, or other graphical representations, and works of any similar nature (whether or not copyrighted) which are submitted with a proposal or grant application or which are specified to be delivered under this grant or which are developed or produced and paid

for under this grant. The term does not include financial reports, cost analyses, and other information incidental to grant administration.

2. Except as may otherwise be provided in the grant agreement, when publications, films, or similar materials are developed directly or indirectly from a project supported by the Environmental Protection Agency, the author is free to arrange for copyright without approval. However, such materials shall include acknowledgement of EPA grant assistance. The grantee agrees to and does hereby grant to the Government, and to its officers, agents, and employees acting within the scope of their official duties, a royalty-free, nonexclusive, and irrevocable license throughout the world for Government purposes to publish, translate, reproduce, deliver, perform, dispose of, and to authorize others so to do, all Subject Data, or copyrightable material based on such data, now or hereafter covered by copyright.

3. The grantee shall not include in the Subject Data any copyrighted matter, without the written approval of the Project Officer, unless he provides the Government with the written permission of the copyright owner for the Government to use such copyrighted matter in the manner provided in Article 2 above.

4. The grantee shall report to the Project Officer, promptly and in reasonable written detail, each notice or claim of copyright infringement received by the grantee with respect to all Subject Data delivered under this grant.

5. Nothing contained in this Appendix shall imply a license to the Government under any patent or be construed as affecting the scope of any license or other rights otherwise granted to the Government under any patent.

6. Unless otherwise limited below, the Government may, without additional compensation to the grantee, duplicate, use, and disclose in any manner and for any purpose whatsoever, and have others so do, all Subject Data.

7. Notwithstanding any provisions of this grant concerning inspection and acceptance, the Government shall have the right at any time to modify, remove, obliterate, or ignore any marking not authorized by the terms of this grant on any piece of Subject Data furnished under this grant.

8. Data need not be furnished for standard commercial items or services which are normally or have been sold or offered to the public commercially by any supplier and which are incorporated as component parts in or to be used with the product or process being developed or investigated, if in lieu thereof identification of source and characteristics (including performance specifications, when necessary) sufficient to enable

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