Volume 68
Private Law 83–389
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to transfer to Frederick W. Lee the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to a certain invention.
Approved June 3, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to transfer to Frederick W. Lee the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to a certain invention.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary
Frederick W. Lee.
of the Interior is hereby authorized to transfer to Frederick W. Lee, a former employee of the Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, by means of an appropriate legal instrument, the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to a certain invention made by said Frederick W. Lee consisting of a “Method for Determining the Subterranean Extension of Geologic Bodies,” as described and claimed in the United States Application for Letters Patent filed May 29, 1942, and covered by United States Letters Patent numbered 2,440,693: Provided, however, That such legal instrument shall reserve to the Government of the United States, in all departments, independent establishments, and corporate and other agencies thereof, the right to a nonexclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free license in and to the invention for all governmental purposes.
Approved June 3, 1954.