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7. Specified standards for control of intangible property are provided as <br />follows: <br /> <br /> a. If any program produces patentable items, patent rights, processes, or <br />inventions, in the course of work aided by a Federal grant, such fact shall be <br />promptly and fully reported to the grantor agency. Unless there is prior <br />agreement between the grantee and grantor on disposition of such items, the <br />grantor agency shall determine whether protection on such invention or <br />discovery shall be sought and how the rights in the invention or <br />discovery--including rights under any patent issued thereon--shall be <br />allocated and administered in order to protect the public interest consistent <br />with "Government Patent Policy" (President's Memorandum for Heads of Executive <br />Departments and Agencies, August 23, 1971, and Statement of Government Patent <br />Policy as printed in 36 F.R. 16889). <br /> <br /> b. Where the grant results in a book or other copyrightable material, the <br />author or grantee is free tO~ copyright the. work, but' the Federal grantor <br />agency reserves a royalty-free, nonexclusive and irrevocable license to <br />reproduce, publish, or otherwise use, and to authorize others to use the work <br />for Government purposes. <br /> <br />2438A <br /> <br /> <br />