U.S. Patent Act

..Part II. Patentabililty of Inventions and Grant of Patents

....Chapt. 18. Inventions Made With Federal Assistance

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Sect.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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