10 CFR § 783.2 - Limitations.

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title: "10 CFR § 783.2 - Limitations."
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title_name: "Energy"
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section_name: "Limitations."
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part_name: "WAIVER OF PATENT RIGHTS"
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authority: "Secs. 152, 161, 68 Stat. 944, 948, as amended; (42 U.S.C. 2182, 2201)."
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# 783.2 Limitations.

(a) Except with regard to the use of the Gamma facility at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, nothing contained in this part shall be deemed to waive any rights in inventions or discoveries where a person or a group of persons acting on behalf of the person requesting the irradiation service works at the DOE facility in connection with the irradiation service. In such event, special arrangements are made.

(b) Nothing contained in this part shall be construed to affect the provisions of any written agreement to which DOE has or may become a party.