# § 200. Policy and objective
It is the policy and objective of the Congress to use the patent system to promote the utilization of inventions arising from federally supported research or development; to encourage maximum participation of small business firms in federally supported research and development efforts; to promote collaboration between commercial concerns and nonprofit organizations, including universities; to ensure that inventions made by nonprofit organizations and small business firms are used in a manner to promote free competition and enterprise without unduly encumbering future research and discovery; to promote the commercialization and public availability of inventions made in the United States by United States industry and labor; to ensure that the Government obtains sufficient rights in federally supported inventions to meet the needs of the Government and protect the public against nonuse or unreasonable use of inventions; and to minimize the costs of administering policies in this area.
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**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 96–517, § 6(a), Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 3018; amended Pub. L. 106–404, § 5, Nov. 1, 2000, 114 Stat. 1745.)
## Editorial Notes
### Amendments
2000— substituted “enterprise without unduly encumbering future research and discovery;” for “enterprise;”.
## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
### Effective Date
Section effective , but implementing regulations authorized to be issued earlier, see , set out as an Effective Date of 1980 Amendment note under .
### Short Title
This chapter is popularly known as the Bayh-Dole Act. , , , which enacted this chapter, is also popularly known as the Bayh-Dole Act and also as the University and Small Business Patent Procedures Act of 1980. For complete classification of to the Code, see Tables.