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to negotiate licensing agreements under section 207 of title 35, or under other authorities (in the case of a Government-owned, contractor-operated laboratory, subject to subsection (c) of this section) for inventions made or other intellectual property developed at the laboratory and other inventions or other intellectual property that may be voluntarily assigned to the Government.
A nonexclusive, nontransferable, irrevocable, paid-up license from the collaborating party to the laboratory to practice the invention or have the invention practiced throughout the world by or on behalf of the Government. In the exercise of such license, the Government shall not publicly disclose trade secrets or commercial or financial information that is privileged or confidential within the meaning of section 552(b)(4) of title 5 or which would be considered as such if it had been obtained from a non-Federal party.
if the collaborating party fails to grant such a license, to grant the license itself.
the collaborating party has failed to comply with an agreement containing provisions described in subsection (c)(4)(B).
This determination is subject to administrative appeal and judicial review under section 203(2)  of title 35.
Under agreements entered into pursuant to subsection (a)(1), the laboratory shall ensure that a collaborating party may retain title to any invention made solely by its employee in exchange for normally granting the Government a nonexclusive, nontransferable, irrevocable, paid-up license to practice the invention or have the invention practiced throughout the world by or on behalf of the Government for research or other Government purposes.
waive, subject to reservation by the Government of a nonexclusive, irrevocable, paid-up license to practice the invention or have the invention practiced throughout the world by or on behalf of the Government, in advance, in whole or in part, any right of ownership which the Federal Government may have to any subject invention made under the agreement by a collaborating party or employee of a collaborating party.
A collaborating party in an exclusive license in any invention made under an agreement entered into pursuant to subsection (a)(1) shall have the right of enforcement under chapter 29 of title 35.
for scientific research and development consistent with the research and development missions and objectives of the laboratory.
In the case of a laboratory that is part of the National Nuclear Security Administration, a designated official of that Administration may waive any license retained by the Government under paragraph (1)(A), (2), or (3)(D), in whole or in part and according to negotiated terms and conditions, if the designated official finds that the retention of the license by the Government would substantially inhibit the commercialization of an invention that would otherwise serve an important national security mission.
The authority to grant a waiver under subparagraph (A) shall expire on the date that is five years after October 30, 2000. The expiration under the preceding sentence of authority to grant a waiver under subparagraph (A) shall not affect any waiver granted under that subparagraph before the expiration of such authority.
Not later than February 15 of each year, the Administrator for Nuclear Security shall submit to Congress a report on any waivers granted under this paragraph during the preceding year.
A Federal agency may issue regulations on suitable procedures for implementing the provisions of this section; however, implementation of this section shall not be delayed until issuance of such regulations.
The agency in permitting a Federal laboratory to enter into agreements under this section shall be guided by the purposes of this chapter.
Any agency using the authority given it under subsection (a) shall review standards of conduct for its employees for resolving potential conflicts of interest to make sure they adequately establish guidelines for situations likely to arise through the use of this authority, including but not limited to cases where present or former employees or their partners negotiate licenses or assignments of titles to inventions or negotiate cooperative research and development agreements with Federal agencies (including the agency with which the employee involved is or was formerly employed).
If, in implementing subparagraph (A), an agency is unable to resolve potential conflicts of interest within its current statutory framework, it shall propose necessary statutory changes to be forwarded to its authorizing committees in Congress.
give preference to business units located in the United States which agree that products embodying inventions made under the cooperative research and development agreement or produced through the use of such inventions will be manufactured substantially in the United States and, in the case of any industrial organization or other person subject to the control of a foreign company or government, as appropriate, take into consideration whether or not such foreign government permits United States agencies, organizations, or other persons to enter into cooperative research and development agreements and licensing agreements.
If the head of the agency or his designee desires an opportunity to disapprove or require the modification of any such agreement presented by the director of a Government-operated laboratory, the agreement shall provide a 30-day period within which such action must be taken beginning on the date the agreement is presented to him or her by the head of the laboratory concerned.
In any case in which the head of an agency or his designee disapproves or requires the modification of an agreement presented by the director of a Government-operated laboratory under this section, the head of the agency or such designee shall transmit a written explanation of such disapproval or modification to the head of the laboratory concerned.
Any non-Federal entity that operates a laboratory pursuant to a contract with a Federal agency shall submit to the agency any cooperative research and development agreement that the entity proposes to enter into and the joint work statement if required with respect to that agreement.
A Federal agency that receives a proposed agreement and joint work statement under clause (i) shall review and approve, request specific modifications to, or disapprove the proposed agreement and joint work statement within 30 days after such submission. No agreement may be entered into by a Government-owned, contractor-operated laboratory under this section before both approval of the agreement and approval of a joint work statement under this clause.
In any case in which an agency which has contracted with an entity referred to in clause (i) disapproves or requests the modification of a cooperative research and development agreement or joint work statement submitted under that clause, the agency shall transmit a written explanation of such disapproval or modification to the head of the laboratory concerned.
Any agency that has contracted with a non-Federal entity to operate a laboratory may develop and provide to such laboratory one or more model cooperative research and development agreements for purposes of standardizing practices and procedures, resolving common legal issues, and enabling review of cooperative research and development agreements to be carried out in a routine and prompt manner.
A Federal agency may waive the requirements of clause (i) or (ii) under such circumstances as the agency considers appropriate.
Each agency shall maintain a record of all agreements entered into under this section.
No trade secrets or commercial or financial information that is privileged or confidential, under the meaning of section 552(b)(4) of title 5, which is obtained in the conduct of research or as a result of activities under this chapter from a non-Federal party participating in a cooperative research and development agreement shall be disclosed.
The director, or in the case of a contractor-operated laboratory, the agency, for a period of up to 5 years after development of information that results from research and development activities conducted under this chapter and that would be a trade secret or commercial or financial information that is privileged or confidential if the information had been obtained from a non-Federal party participating in a cooperative research and development agreement, may provide appropriate protections against the dissemination of such information, including exemption from subchapter II of chapter 5 of title 5.
the term “weapon production facility of the Department of Energy” means a facility under the control or jurisdiction of the Secretary of Energy that is operated for national security purposes and is engaged in the production, maintenance, testing, or dismantlement of a nuclear weapon or its components.
For purposes of this section, an agency shall make separate determinations of the mission or missions of each of its laboratories.
Nothing in this section is intended to limit or diminish existing authorities of any agency.
The implementation shall advance program missions at the laboratory, including any national security mission.
Classified information and unclassified sensitive information protected by law, regulation, or Executive order shall be appropriately safeguarded.
Section 203(2) of title 35, referred to in subsec. (b)(1)(C), was redesignated section 203(b) of title 35 by Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title III, § 13206(a)(14)(A)(i), Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1905.
Executive Order No. 12344, referred to in subsec. (d)(2), is set out as a note under section 2511 of Title 50, War and National Defense.
2000—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [div. C, title XXXI, § 3196(a)], substituted “joint work statement or, if permitted by the agency, in an agency-approved annual strategic plan,” for “joint work statement,” in introductory provisions.
Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 106–404, in first sentence, inserted “or, subject to section 209 of title 35, may grant a license to an invention which is federally owned, for which a patent application was filed before the signing of the agreement, and directly within the scope of the work under the agreement,” after “under the agreement,”.
Subsec. (b)(6). Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [div. C, title XXXI, § 3196(b)], added par. (6).
Subsec. (c)(5)(C), (D). Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [div. C, title XXXI, § 3196(c)], redesignated subpar. (D) as (C), struck out “with a small business firm” after “enter into” and inserted “if” after “statement” in cl. (i), added cls. (iv) and (v), and struck out former subpar. (C) which related to the duties of an agency which has contracted with a non-Federal entity to operate a laboratory with respect to review and approval of joint work statements and agreements under this section and with respect to providing the entity with model cooperative research and development agreements.
1996—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 104–113 amended subsec. (b) generally, to require that laboratory ensure that collaborating party be provided option of choosing exclusive license for pre-negotiated field of use for any invention under agreement or that collaborating party be offered option of holding licensing rights that collectively encompass rights that would be held under such exclusive license by one party, to set forth explicit conditions that grants under par. (1) were to be subject to, and to require laboratory to ensure that collaborating party might retain title to any invention made solely by its employee in exchange for normally granting Government nonexclusive, nontransferable, irrevocable, paid-up license to practice invention by or on behalf of Government for research or for other Government purposes.
1993—Subsec. (d)(2)(B). Pub. L. 103–160, § 3160(1), inserted “(including a weapon production facility of the Department of Energy)” after “facilities” and “, or the production, maintenance, testing, or dismantlement of a nuclear weapon or its components,” after “research and development”.
Subsec. (d)(2)(C). Pub. L. 103–160, § 3160(2), inserted “(including a weapon production facility of the Department of Energy)” after “facility” and “, or the production, maintenance, testing, or dismantlement of a nuclear weapon or its components,” after “research and development”.
Subsec. (d)(4). Pub. L. 103–160, § 3160(3)–(5), added par. (4).
1992—Subsec. (c)(5)(C)(i). Pub. L. 102–484, § 3135(a)(1), substituted “Except as provided in subparagraph (D), any agency” for “Any agency”.
Subsec. (c)(5)(D). Pub. L. 102–484, § 3135(a)(2), added subpar. (D).
Subsec. (d)(1). Pub. L. 102–245 inserted “intellectual property,” after “equipment,” in two places.
1991—Subsec. (d)(2). Pub. L. 102–25 substituted “naval” for “Naval” in concluding provisions.
1989—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 101–189, § 3133(a)(1)(A), inserted “, and, to the extent provided in an agency-approved joint work statement, the director of any of its Government-owned, contractor-operated laboratories” after “Government-operated Federal laboratories” in introductory provisions.
Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 101–189, § 3133(a)(1)(B), (C), substituted “(in the case of a Government-owned, contractor-operated laboratory, subject to subsection (c) of this section) for” for “for Government-owned” and struck out “of Federal employees” before “that may be voluntarily”.
Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 101–189, § 3133(a)(2)(B), substituted “a laboratory employee” for “a Federal employee”.
Subsec. (c)(3)(A). Pub. L. 101–189, § 3133(a)(3), substituted “standards of conduct for its employees” for “employee standards of conduct”.
Subsec. (c)(5)(A). Pub. L. 101–189, § 3133(a)(4), inserted “presented by the director of a Government-operated laboratory” after “any such agreement”.
Subsec. (c)(5)(B). Pub. L. 101–189, § 3133(a)(5), inserted “by the director of a Government-operated laboratory” after “an agreement presented”.
Subsec. (c)(5)(C). Pub. L. 101–189, § 3133(a)(6), added subpar. (C).
Subsec. (c)(7). Pub. L. 101–189, § 3133(a)(7), added par. (7).
Subsec. (d)(3). Pub. L. 101–189, § 3133(a)(8)(A), (C), added par. (3).
Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 101–189, § 3133(b), added subsec. (g).
1988—Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 100–519, § 301(1), substituted “or other intellectual property developed at the laboratory and other inventions or other intellectual property” for “at the laboratory and other inventions”.
Subsec. (b)(4), (5). Pub. L. 100–519, § 301(2), added par. (4) and redesignated former par. (4) as (5).
with respect to major proposed cooperative research and development agreements that involve critical national security technology or may have a significant impact on domestic or international competitiveness.
additional procedures, if any, for carrying out such gathering and considering of agency views with respect to cooperative research and development agreements described in subsection (a).
Procedures established under this subsection shall be designed to the extent possible to use or modify existing procedures, to minimize burdens on Federal agencies, to encourage industrial partnerships with national laboratories, and to minimize delay in the approval or disapproval of joint work statements and cooperative research and development agreements.
The Secretary of the Army, in cooperation with the Secretary of Transportation, authorized to conduct research and development activities on magnetic levitation technology using contracts or cooperative research and development agreements under this section, see section 417 of Pub. L. 101–640, set out as a note under section 2313 of Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters.
provides for an accounting of all royalty or other income received under cooperative research and development agreements.
The requirements described in paragraph (1)(C) and (D) shall not apply in a case where the negotiating or approving employee advises the agency that reviewed the applicable joint work statement under section 12(c)(5)(C)(i) of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 [15 U.S.C. 3710a(c)(5)(C)(i)] in advance of the matter in which he is to participate and the nature of any financial interest described in paragraph (1)(C), and where the agency employee determines that such financial interest is not so substantial as to be considered likely to affect the integrity of the laboratory employee’s service in that matter.
Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act [Nov. 29, 1989], each agency which has contracted with a non-Federal entity to operate a Government-owned laboratory shall submit a report to the Congress which includes a copy of each contract provision amended pursuant to this subsection.
such laboratory agrees in a separate writing to be bound by the provisions described in paragraph (1)(A) through (F).
Any contract for a Government-owned, contractor-operated laboratory entered into after the expiration of 150 days after the date of enactment of this Act [Nov. 29, 1989] shall contain the provisions described in paragraph (1)(A) through (F).

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