---
kind: "unit"
title: "37"
title_heading: "Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights"
key: "chIV/part401"
level: "part"
label: "Part 401"
heading: "Rights to Inventions Made by Nonprofit Organizations and Small Business Firms under Government Grants, Contracts, and Cooperative Agreements"
release: "ecfr-current"
date: "2026-08-27"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/37/chIV-part401"
sections_count: 17
---

# Part 401 — Rights to Inventions Made by Nonprofit Organizations and Small Business Firms under Government Grants, Contracts, and Cooperative Agreements

Title 37 C.F.R. — Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights › Chapter IV — National Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of Commerce

## Sections

- [§401.1. Scope.](/cfr/37/401.1.md)
- [§401.2. Definitions.](/cfr/37/401.2.md)
- [§401.3. Use of the standard clauses at § 401.14.](/cfr/37/401.3.md)
- [§401.4. Contractor appeals of exceptions.](/cfr/37/401.4.md)
- [§401.5. Modification and tailoring of clauses.](/cfr/37/401.5.md)
- [§401.6. Exercise of march-in rights.](/cfr/37/401.6.md)
- [§401.7-401.8. Reserved](/cfr/37/401.7-401.8.md)
- [§401.9. Contractor and contractor employee inventor requests for rights in inventions.](/cfr/37/401.9.md)
- [§401.10. Government assignment to contractor of rights in invention of government employee.](/cfr/37/401.10.md)
- [§401.11. Appeals.](/cfr/37/401.11.md)
- [§401.12. Licensing of background patent rights to third parties.](/cfr/37/401.12.md)
- [§401.13. Confidentiality of contractor submissions.](/cfr/37/401.13.md)
- [§401.14. Standard patent rights clauses.](/cfr/37/401.14.md)
- [§401.15. Reserved](/cfr/37/401.15.md)
- [§401.16. Federal agency reporting requirements.](/cfr/37/401.16.md)
- [§401.17. Submissions and inquiries.](/cfr/37/401.17.md)
- [§401.18. Severability.](/cfr/37/401.18.md)