35 USC § 212 - Disposition of rights in educational awards

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identifier: "/us/usc/t35/s212"
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title: "35 USC § 212 - Disposition of rights in educational awards"
title_number: 35
title_name: "PATENTS"
section_number: "212"
section_name: "Disposition of rights in educational awards"
chapter_number: 18
chapter_name: "PATENT RIGHTS IN INVENTIONS MADE WITH FEDERAL ASSISTANCE"
part_number: "II"
part_name: "PATENTABILITY OF INVENTIONS AND GRANT OF PATENTS"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2025-12-12"
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source_credit: "(Added Pub. L. 98–620, title V, § 501(14), Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3368.)"
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# § 212. Disposition of rights in educational awards

No scholarship, fellowship, training grant, or other funding agreement made by a Federal agency primarily to an awardee for educational purposes will contain any provision giving the Federal agency any rights to inventions made by the awardee.

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**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 98–620, title V, § 501(14), Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3368.)