---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 526"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "526"
heading: "Protection of patent rights"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/526"
units:
  - "Chapter 10 — Hemispheral Relations"
  - "Subchapter II — War Materials"
---

# §526. Protection of patent rights


The [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) of the Army and the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) of the Navy shall in all contracts or agreements for the sale of such matériel fully protect the rights of all citizens of the United States who have patent rights in and to any such matériel which is authorized to be sold and the funds collected for royalties on such patents shall be paid to the owners and holders of such patents.


## Source credit

(June 15, 1940, ch. 365, § 6, 54 Stat. 397; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, § 205(a), 61 Stat. 501.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

Department of War designated Department of the Army and title of Secretary of War changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, 61 Stat. 501. Section 205(a) of act July 26, 1947, was repealed by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 641. Section 1 of act Aug. 10, 1956, enacted “Title 10, Armed Forces” which in sections 3010 to 3013 continued Department of the Army under administrative supervision of Secretary of the Army.

### Executive Documents

### Secretary of the Air Force

For transfer of certain procurement and related functions and property, insofar as they pertain to Air Force, from Secretary of the Army and Department of the Army to Secretary of the Air Force and Department of the Air Force, see Secretary of Defense Transfer Order Nos. 6 [§ 1(a)(41)], eff. Jan. 15, 1948; 39 [§ 2zz], May 18, 1949.