---
kind: "section"
citation: "32 C.F.R. § 746.12"
title: "32"
number: "746.12"
heading: "Litigation."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/32/746.12"
---

# §746.12. Litigation.


The property interest in a patent is the right to exclude. It is not the intent of the Government to transfer the property right in a patent when a license is issued pursuant to this part. Accordingly, the right to sue for infringement shall be retained with respect to all licenses so issued by the Government.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 10 U.S.C. 5031; 40 U.S.C. 486(c); and 41 CFR 101-4.1.

### Source

Source: 41 FR 55712, Dec. 22, 1976, unless otherwise noted.