---
kind: "unit"
title: "35"
title_heading: "Patents"
key: "ptII/ch17"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 17"
heading: "Secrecy of Certain Inventions and Filing Applications in Foreign Country"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/35/ptII-ch17"
sections_count: 8
---

# Chapter 17 — Secrecy of Certain Inventions and Filing Applications in Foreign Country

Title 35 — Patents › Part II — Patentability of Inventions and Grant of Patents

## Sections

- [§181. Secrecy of certain inventions and withholding of patent](/usc/35/181.md)
- [§182. Abandonment of invention for unauthorized disclosure](/usc/35/182.md)
- [§183. Right to compensation](/usc/35/183.md)
- [§184. Filing of application in foreign country](/usc/35/184.md)
- [§185. Patent barred for filing without license](/usc/35/185.md)
- [§186. Penalty](/usc/35/186.md)
- [§187. Nonapplicability to certain persons](/usc/35/187.md)
- [§188. Rules and regulations, delegation of power](/usc/35/188.md)