Regulations last checked for updates: Feb 12, 2026

Title 32 - National Defense last revised: Feb 06, 2026
§ 37.870 - Should I require recipients to mark documents related to inventions?

To protect the recipient's interest in inventions, your TIA should require the recipient to mark documents disclosing inventions it desires to protect by obtaining a patent. The recipient should mark the documents with a legend identifying them as intellectual property subject to public release or public disclosure restrictions, as provided in 35 U.S.C. 205.

authority: 5 U.S.C. 301 and 10 U.S.C. 113.
source: 68 FR 47160, Aug. 7, 2003, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 32 CFR 37.870