---
kind: "unit"
title: "37"
title_heading: "Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights"
key: "chI/subchA/part5"
level: "part"
label: "Part 5"
heading: "Secrecy of Certain Inventions and Licenses to Export and File Applications in Foreign Countries"
release: "ecfr-current"
date: "2026-08-27"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/37/chI-subchA-part5"
sections_count: 17
---

# Part 5 — Secrecy of Certain Inventions and Licenses to Export and File Applications in Foreign Countries

Title 37 C.F.R. — Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights › Chapter I — United States Patent and Trademark Office, Department of Commerce › Subchapter A — General

## Sections

- [§5.1. Applications and correspondence involving national security.](/cfr/37/5.1.md)
- [§5.2. Secrecy order.](/cfr/37/5.2.md)
- [§5.3. Prosecution of application under secrecy orders; withholding patent.](/cfr/37/5.3.md)
- [§5.4. Petition for rescission of secrecy order.](/cfr/37/5.4.md)
- [§5.5. Permit to disclose or modification of secrecy order.](/cfr/37/5.5.md)
- [§5.6-5.8. Reserved](/cfr/37/5.6-5.8.md)
- [§5.11. License for filing in, or exporting to, a foreign country an application on an invention made in the United States or technical data relating thereto.](/cfr/37/5.11.md)
- [§5.12. Petition for license.](/cfr/37/5.12.md)
- [§5.13. Petition for license; no corresponding application.](/cfr/37/5.13.md)
- [§5.14. Petition for license; corresponding U.S. application.](/cfr/37/5.14.md)
- [§5.15. Scope of license.](/cfr/37/5.15.md)
- [§5.16-5.17. Reserved](/cfr/37/5.16-5.17.md)
- [§5.18. Arms, ammunition, and implements of war.](/cfr/37/5.18.md)
- [§5.19. Export of technical data.](/cfr/37/5.19.md)
- [§5.20. Export of technical data relating to sensitive nuclear technology.](/cfr/37/5.20.md)
- [§5.25. Petition for retroactive license.](/cfr/37/5.25.md)
- [§5.31-5.33. Reserved](/cfr/37/5.31-5.33.md)