Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 10 — Hemispheral Relations
§ 526. Protection of patent rights
Statutory text
The Secretary of the Army and the Secretary of the Navy shall in all contracts or agreements for the sale of such matériel fully protect the rights of all citizens of the United States who have patent rights in and to any such matériel which is authorized to be sold and the funds collected for royalties on such patents shall be paid to the owners and holders of such patents.
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.
Pub. L. 76–365 § 6 · 54 Stat. 396
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 526
June 15, 1940, ch. 365, § 6, 54 Stat. 397
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 15, 1940, ch. 365, § 6, 54 Stat. 397Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 6. The Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy Protection of patent rights of U. S. citizens. shall in all contracts or agreements for the sale of such materiel fully protect the rights of all citizens of the United States who have patent rights in and to any such materiel which is hereby authorized to be sold and the funds collected for royalties on such patents shall be paid to the owners and holders of such patents.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
Department of War designated Department of the Army and title of Secretary of War changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, 61 Stat. 501. Section 205(a) of act , was repealed by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 641. Section 1 of act , enacted “Title 10, Armed Forces” which in sections 3010 to 3013 continued Department of the Army under administrative supervision of Secretary of the Army.
Executive Documents
Secretary of the Air Force
For transfer of certain procurement and related functions and property, insofar as they pertain to Air Force, from Secretary of the Army and Department of the Army to Secretary of the Air Force and Department of the Air Force, see Secretary of Defense Transfer Order Nos. 6 [§ 1(a)(41)], eff. ; 39 [§ 2zz], .
Credits
1940–1947 · 2 acts
- 1940June 15, 1940, ch. 365, § 6, 54 Stat. 397
- 1947July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, § 205(a), 61 Stat. 501.
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(June 15, 1940, ch. 365, § 6, 54 Stat. 397; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, § 205(a), 61 Stat. 501.)