---
kind: "section"
citation: "35 U.S.C. § 211"
title: "35"
title_heading: "Patents"
number: "211"
heading: "Relationship to antitrust laws"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/35/211"
units:
  - "Part II — Patentability of Inventions and Grant of Patents"
  - "Chapter 18 — Patent Rights in Inventions Made with Federal Assistance"
---

# §211. Relationship to antitrust laws


Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to convey to any person immunity from civil or criminal liability, or to create any defenses to actions, under any antitrust law.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 96–517, § 6(a), Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 3027.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective July 1, 1981, but implementing regulations authorized to be issued earlier, see section 8(f) of Pub. L. 96–517, set out as an Effective Date of 1980 Amendment note under section 41 of this title.