§ 2572. Patents; availability to general public; protection of background rights

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.

1. 1961

   Pub. L. 87–297 title III § 302 · 75 Stat. 631

   Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 2572

   Pub. L. 87–297, title III, § 302, formerly § 32, Sept. 26, 1961, 75 Stat. 634

   Target inherited from the preceding amendment note.

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 87–297, title III, § 302, formerly § 32, Sept. 26, 1961, 75 Stat. 634

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 32. patents All research within the United States contracted for, sponsored, cosponsored, or authorized under authority of this Act, shall be provided for in such manner that all information as to uses, products, processes, patents, and other developments resulting from such research developed by Government expenditure will (with such exceptions and limitations, if any, as the Director may find to be necessary in the public interest) be available to the general public. This subsection shall not be so construed as to deprive the owner of any background patent relating thereto of such rights as he may have thereunder.

2. 1998

   Pub. L. 105–277 § 1223(7) · 112 Stat. 2681

   1. Substituted · 22 U.S.C. § 2572

      Pub. L. 105–277, § 1223(7), substituted “Secretary of State” for “Director”

   2. Substituted · 22 U.S.C. § 2572

      Pub. L. 105–277, § 1223(7), substituted “section” for “subsection”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 105–277, § 1223(7), substituted “Secretary of State” for “Director” and “section” for “subsection”.

   Effective date note
   Amendment by Pub. L. 105–277 effective Apr. 1, 1999, see section 1201 of Pub. L. 105–277, set out as an Effective Date note under section 6511 of this title.

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