---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 1245.302"
title: "14"
number: "1245.302"
heading: "Inventions by NASA employees."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/1245.302"
---

# §1245.302. Inventions by NASA employees.

- (a) The foreign rights of NASA and of the NASA employee making an invention are determinable in accordance with Executive Orders 9865 and 10096 and Government Patent Board Administrative Order No. 6 issued pursuant thereto.
- (b) Where NASA acquires an assignment of the domestic rights in an invention made by a NASA employee, NASA will also obtain an option to acquire the foreign rights, including the right to file foreign patent applications on the invention.
- (c) Where NASA is entitled to only a governmental license in the invention, the principal foreign rights in the invention are retained by the employee unless he agrees in writing to assign such rights to NASA.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 51 U.S.C. 20135(g) and E.O. 9865, 12 FR 3907, 3 CFR, 1943-1948 Comp., p. 651, and E.O. 10096, 15 FR 389, 3 CFR, 1949-1953 Comp., p. 292.

### Source

Source: 30 FR 1844, Feb. 10, 1965, unless otherwise noted.