[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 14, Volume 5]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 14CFR1245.301]

[Page 211]
 
                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE
 
                          SPACE ADMINISTRATION
 
PART 1245_PATENTS AND OTHER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS--
Table of Contents
 
                  Subpart 3_NASA Foreign Patent Program
 
Sec. 1245.301  Inventions under NASA contracts.

    (a) Pursuant to Sec. 1245.113, NASA has facilitated the filing of 
foreign patent applications by contractors by providing for the granting 
of a waiver of title to a contractor to any identified invention in 
countries other than the United States in the event the Administrator of 
NASA does not desire to file a patent application covering the invention 
in such countries. However, any such waiver is subject to the 
reservation by the Administrator of the license required to be retained 
by NASA under section 305(f) of the National Aeronautics and Space Act 
of 1958 (42 U.S.C. 2457(f)).
    (b) Conversely, where the principal rights in an invention made 
under a NASA contract remain in the contractor by virtue of waiver, 
Sec. 1245.19(a)(5) provides that the contractor, upon written request, 
will convey to the Administrator of NASA the entire right, title, and 
interest in the invention in any foreign country in which the contractor 
has elected not to file a patent application.
    (c) With respect to inventions in which NASA has acquired and 
retained the principal rights, NASA will file patent applications in 
countries other than the United States on inventions selected in 
accordance with the criteria set forth in Sec. 1245.303.