THE CUSTOMARY EXCHANGE OF VIEWS AND IDEAS BETWEEN SCIENTISTS .
. THE JET COUNCIL SHALL ESTABLISH TERMS AND CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH THE JOINT UNDERTAKING AND ITS MEMBERS MAY PROCEED TO DISSEMINATION AND/OR LICENSING OF THE INFORMATION AND IN PARTICULAR OF THE DRAWINGS , DESIGNS , COMPUTATIONS , DOCUMENTS , KNOW-HOW AND NON-PATENTABLE INVENTIONS REFERRED TO IN POINT 16.1.1 .
16.2 . PATENTS
16.2.1 . WHERE PATENTABLE INVENTIONS ARE MADE IN THE EXECUTION OF THE PROJECT THE COMMISSION MAY , ON BEHALF AND AT THE COST OF EURATOM , FILE PATENT APPLICATIONS AND OBTAIN PATENTS . THE JOINT UNDERTAKING SHALL PROMPTLY INFORM THE COMMISSION ABOUT INVENTIONS AND SHALL IN DUE TIME FORWARD TO THE LATTER ANY DOCUMENT AND INFORMATION REQUIRED FOR FILING OF THE PATENT APPLICATIONS . THE COMMISSION SHALL TRANSMIT TO THE JOINT UNDERTAKING THE ADMINISTRATIVE DATA AND A COPY OF SUCH PATENT APPLICATIONS OR PATENTS .
16.2.2 . UNDER THE PATENT APPLICATIONS AND PATENTS REFERRED TO IN POINT 16.2.1 THE JOINT UNDERTAKING AND THE MEMBERS THEREOF SHALL BE ENTITLED TO ROYALTY-FREE , NON-EXCLUSIVE , IRREVOCABLE LICENCES WITH THE RIGHT TO GRANT SUBLICENCES AFTER CONSULTATION WITH THE COMMISSION .
16.2.3 . UNDER THE PATENT APPLICATIONS AND PATENTS REFERRED TO IN POINT 16.2.1 , THE COMMISSION MAY , IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE 12 OF THE EURATOM TREATY AND SUBJECT TO THE CONDITIONS CONTAINED THEREIN , GRANT ON REQUEST NON-EXCLUSIVE LICENCES TO THE MEMBER STATES OF EURATOM , TO PERSONS AND UNDERTAKINGS ( AS DEFINED IN ARTICLE 196 OF THAT TREATY ), AS WELL AS TO THE GOVERNMENT OF SWEDEN AND TO PERSONS AND UNDERTAKINGS ESTABLISHED ON ITS TERRITORY . GRANTING OF NON-EXCLUSIVE LICENCES BY THE COMMISSION TO STATES , PERSONS AND ENTERPRISES OTHER THAN THOSE SPECIFIED ABOVE SHALL BE ON THE CONDITIONS APPROVED BY THE JET COUNCIL .
16.2.4 . SHOULD THE COMMISSION IN REGARD TO ANY INVENTION , PATENT APPLICATION OR PATENT REFERRED TO IN POINT 16.2.1 FOR ADEQUATE REASONS ( INCLUDING IN PARTICULAR LACK OF BUDGETARY ALLOCATIONS ) INTEND TO WAIVE ITS RIGHT TO FILE , OR TO ABANDON PATENT APPLICATIONS AND/OR PATENTS , IT SHALL INFORM THE JOINT UNDERTAKING AND THE OTHER MEMBERS THEREOF IN DUE TIME . IF IN SUCH EVENT A MEMBER REQUESTS ASSIGNMENT OF THE PERTINENT EURATOM RIGHTS , THE COMMISSION SHALL COMPLY WITH SUCH REQUEST AND THE MEMBER INVOLVED SHALL THEN BE ENTITLED TO FILE PATENT APPLICATIONS AND TO PURSUE OR MAINTAIN SUCH PATENT APPLICATIONS AND PATENTS AS WERE ALREADY FILED OR GRANTED . IF THE REQUEST FOR ASSIGNMENT IS MADE BY SEVERAL MEMBERS AND NO AGREEMENT CAN BE REACHED AMONG THEM ON A SOLE ASSIGNEE , THEN THE COMMISSION SHALL REFER THE MATTER TO THE JET COUNCIL FOR DECISION .
16.2.5 . IN REGARD TO ANY INVENTION , PATENT APPLICATION OR PATENT REFERRED TO IN POINT 16.2.4 AND ASSIGNED TO A MEMBER OF THE JOINT UNDERTAKING , OR FILED AND OBTAINED BY SUCH MEMBER AFTER ASSIGNMENT , EURATOM SHALL BE GRANTED A ROYALTY-FREE , NON-EXCLUSIVE LICENCE FOR ITS OWN