§ 3480. Copyrights and patents

Statutory text

The Secretary is authorized to acquire any of the following described rights if the property acquired thereby is for use by or for, or useful to, the Department:

copyrights, patents, and applications for patents, designs, processes, and manufacturing data;

licenses under copyrights, patents, and applications for patents; and

releases, before suit is brought, for past infringement of patents or copyrights.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1979
Department of Education Organization Act
Pub. L. 96–88 title IV § 420 · 93 Stat. 668
Enacted · 20 U.S.C. § 3480
(Pub. L. 96–88, title IV, § 420, Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 687.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 96–88, title IV, § 420, Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 687.)
Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 420. copyrights and patents The Secretary is authorized to acquire any of the following 20 USC 3480. described rights if the property acquired thereby is for use by or for, or useful to, the Department: (1) copyrights, patents, and applications for patents, designs, processes, and manufacturing data; (2) licenses under copyrights, patents, and applications for patents; and (3) releases, before suit is brought, for past infringement of patents or copyrights.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 96–88, title IV, § 420, Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 687.)