The following format may be used for the confirmatory license to the Government required by subparagraph (f)(5) of the Patent Rights clause in § 650.4(a). Any equivalent instrument may also be used.
License to the United States Government
This instrument confirms to the United States Government, as represented by the National Science Foundation, an irrevocable, nonexclusive, nontransferable, royalty-free license to practice or have practiced on its behalf throughout the world the following subject invention:
(invention title)
(inventor[s] name[s])
(patent application number and filing date)
(country, if other than United States)
(NSF Disclosure No.).
This subject invention was made with NSF support through:
(grant or contract number)
(grantee or contractor).
Principal rights to this subject invention have been left with the licensor.
Signed:
Name:
Title:
Date:
Accepted on behalf of the Government:
NSF Patent Assistant
Date:
authority: 35 U.S.C. 200-212,
42.S.C. 1870(e) and 1871; and the Presidential Memorandum entitled “Government Patent Policy”, issued February 18, 1983
source: 57 FR 18053, Apr. 28, 1992, unless otherwise noted.