Rights to Federally Funded Inventions and Licensing of Government Owned Inventions

The National Institute of Standards and Technology revised is regulations to institute a reporting requirement on federal agencies; and provide clarifications on definitions, communications, process for exercising march-in rights, filing of provisional patent applications, electronic filing of Bayh-Dole related reporting, the purpose of royalties on licenses from the federal government, and the processes for granting exclusive, co-exclusive and partially exclusive licenses and for appeals