48 CFR § 52.227-7 - 52.227-7 Patents—Notice of Government Licensee.
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t48/s52.227-7"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "48 CFR § 52.227-7 - 52.227-7 Patents—Notice of Government Licensee."
title_number: 48
title_name: "Federal Acquisition Regulations System"
section_number: "52.227-7"
section_name: "52.227-7 Patents—Notice of Government Licensee."
chapter_number: 1
chapter_name: "FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION"
subchapter_number: "H"
subchapter_name: "CLAUSES AND FORMS"
part_number: "52"
part_name: "SOLICITATION PROVISIONS AND CONTRACT CLAUSES"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "41 U.S.C. 1121(b); 40 U.S.C. 121(c); 10 U.S.C. chapter 4 and 10 U.S.C. chapter 137 legacy provisions (see 10 U.S.C. 3016); and 51 U.S.C. 20113."
regulatory_source: "48 FR 42478, Sept. 19, 1983, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "52"
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# 52.227-7 52.227-7 Patents—Notice of Government Licensee.
As prescribed at 27.202-5(b), insert the following provision:
****Patents—Notice of Government Licensee (APR 1984)
The Government is obligated to pay a royalty applicable to the proposed acquisition because of a license agreement between the Government and the patent owner. The patent number is ____ [*Contracting Officer fill in*], and the royalty rate is ____ [*Contracting Officer fill in*]. If the offeror is the owner of, or a licensee under, the patent, indicate below:
( ) Owner ( ) Licensee
If an offeror does not indicate that it is the owner or a licensee of the patent, its offer will be evaluated by adding thereto an amount equal to the royalty.
****(End of provision)
[49 FR 12988, Mar. 30, 1984, as amended at 72 FR 63066, Nov. 7, 2007]