Regulations last checked for updates: Feb 12, 2026

Title 48 - Federal Acquisition Regulations System last revised: Jan 28, 2026
252.227-7000 - 252.227-7000 Non-estoppel.

As prescribed at 227.7009-1, insert the following clause in patent releases, license agreements, and assignments:

Non-Estoppel (OCT 1966)

The Government reserves the right at any time to contest the enforceability, validity, scope of, or the title to any patent or patent application herein licensed without waiving or forfeiting any right under this contract.

(End of clause)
authority: 41 U.S.C. 1303 and 48 CFR chapter 1
source: 56 FR 36479, July 31, 1991, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 48 CFR 252.227-7000