---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 C.F.R. § 1.652"
title: "38"
number: "1.652"
heading: "Criteria for determining rights to employee inventions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/38/1.652"
---

# §1.652. Criteria for determining rights to employee inventions.

- (a) The criteria to be applied in determining the respective rights of the Government and of the employee-inventor in and to any invention subject to these provisions shall be in accordance with the Uniform Patent Policy regulations found at 37 CFR [501.6](/cfr/37/501.6.md) and [501.7](/cfr/37/501.7.md).
- (b) Ownership in and to inventions arising under Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs) pursuant to [15 USC 3710a](/usc/15/3710a.md) shall be governed by the provisions of the pertinent CRADA, as authorized by the Federal Technology Transfer Act.

## Notes

### Amendments

[61 FR 29658, June 12, 1996]

### Authority

Authority: Sections 1.650 to 1.666 issued under sect. 1, 66 Stat. 811, 72 Stat. 1114; 35 U.S.C. 266; 15 U.S.C. 3710a; 38 U.S.C. 501; E.O. 10096, E.O. 10930, 15 FR 389; 3 CFR 1949-1953 Comp.

### Authority

Authority: 38 U.S.C. 501, and as noted in specific sections.

### Source

Source: 40 FR 33944, Aug. 12, 1975, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[61 FR 29658, June 12, 1996]