1980 Department of Energy Authorization: Hearing Before the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session ...

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Page 573 - Invention or discovery" includes any art, machine, manufacture, design, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, or any variety of plant, which is or may be patentable under the patent laws of the United States of America or any foreign country. (c) "Contractor...
Page 598 - The Contractor agrees to and does hereby grant to the Government an irrevocable, nonexclusive, nontransferable, and royaltyfree license to practice, and cause to be practiced...
Page 567 - Whenever an invention described in and covered by a patent of the United States is used or manufactured by or for the United States...
Page 575 - The disclosure shall identify the contract and inventor, and shall be sufficiently complete in technical detail and appropriately illustrated by sketch or diagram to convey to one skilled in the art to which the invention pertains a clear understanding of the nature, purpose, operation, and to the extent known, the physical, chemical, biological, or electrical characteristics of the invention; (ii) Interim reports...
Page 577 - ... the Contractor hereby assigns to the Government all the rights that the Contractor would have to enforce the subcontractor's obligations for the benefit of the Government with respect to Subject Inventions.
Page 584 - In determining whether a waiver to the contractor or inventor of rights to an identified invention will best serve the interests of the United States and the general public, the...
Page 573 - ... contract" means any contract, grant, agreement, understanding, or other arrangement, which includes research, development, or demonstration work, and includes any assignment, substitution of parties, or subcontract executed or entered into thereunder; (3) the term ''made", when used in relation to any invention, means the conception or first actual reduction to practice of such invention; (4) the term "invention...
Page 80 - ... the Department of Housing and Urban Development, is a baseline document for criteria and standards for the design, development, technical evaluation, and procurement of solar heating and cooling systems for residential buildings in accordance with the requirements of Section 8 of Public Law 93-409, the "Solar Heating and Cooling Demonstration Act of 1974.
Page 598 - Contract, provided, however, that to the extent that any limited rights data when furnished or delivered is specifically identified by the Contractor at the time of initial delivery to the Government or a representative of the Government, such data shall not be used within or outside the Government except as provided in the "Limited Rights Notice
Page 589 - Administrator at such hearing that he has taken effective steps, or within a reasonable time thereafter is expected to take such steps, necessary to accomplish substantial utilization of the invention.

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