---
kind: "section"
citation: "39 C.F.R. § 3024.6"
title: "39"
number: "3024.6"
heading: "Disclosure, transfer, and licensing of intellectual property."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/39/3024.6"
---

# §3024.6. Disclosure, transfer, and licensing of intellectual property.

- (a) A complaint alleging a violation of [39 U.S.C. 404a(a)(2)](/usc/39/404a.md?p=a-2) must show that the Postal Service has compelled or attempted to compel the disclosure, transfer, or licensing of the intellectual property of the person filing the complaint to a third party.
- (b) As used in this section, the term intellectual property includes, among other things, patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and proprietary information.
- (c) As used in this section, the term disclosure, transfer, or licensing of intellectual property includes, among other things, an action that has an adverse effect on the value of intellectual property.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 39 U.S.C. 404a; 3662.

### Source

Source: 79 FR 62294, Oct. 16, 2014, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 85 FR 9615, Feb. 19, 2020.
