It also seeks to retain ownership of all inventions appearing on the export control list. Effort defeated administratively. Senator Gorton wants GOGOs to have the same authorities as universities and their GOCOs. DOE refuses to extend to for profit operators of its GOCOs. To protect GOCOs from being abused, Congress writes into law that joint work statements must be either approved or rejected in 90 days.
Law requires agency requests for modifications be in writing.
This procedure was built in by Congress to attempt to limit DOE abuses of the statute. 1994 to present.