---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 C.F.R. § 31.205-30"
title: "48"
number: "31.205-30"
heading: "Patent costs."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/48/31.205-30"
---

# §31.205-30. Patent costs.

- (a) The following patent costs are allowable to the extent that they are incurred as requirements of a Government contract (but see 31.205-33):
  - (1) **Costs of preparing invention disclosures, reports, and other documents.**
  - (2) **Costs for searching the art to the extent necessary to make the invention disclosures.**
  - (3) Other costs in connection with the filing and prosecution of a United States patent application where title or royalty-free license is to be conveyed to the Government.
- (b) General counseling services relating to patent matters, such as advice on patent laws, regulations, clauses, and employee agreements, are allowable (but see 31.205-33).
- (c) Other than those for general counseling services, patent costs not required by the contract are unallowable. (See also 31.205-37.)

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 40 U.S.C. 121(c); 10 U.S.C. chapter 4 and 10 U.S.C. chapter 137 legacy provisions (see 10 U.S.C. 3016); and 51 U.S.C. 20113.

### Source

Source: 48 FR 42301, Sept. 19, 1983, unless otherwise noted.