---
kind: "unit"
title: "35"
title_heading: "Patents"
key: "ptII/ch18"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 18"
heading: "Patent Rights in Inventions Made with Federal Assistance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/35/ptII-ch18"
sections_count: 13
---

# Chapter 18 — Patent Rights in Inventions Made with Federal Assistance

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

## Sections

- [§200. Policy and objective](/usc/35/200.md)
- [§201. Definitions](/usc/35/201.md)
- [§202. Disposition of rights](/usc/35/202.md)
- [§203. March-in rights](/usc/35/203.md)
- [§204. Preference for United States industry](/usc/35/204.md)
- [§205. Confidentiality](/usc/35/205.md)
- [§206. Uniform clauses and regulations](/usc/35/206.md)
- [§207. Domestic and foreign protection of federally owned inventions](/usc/35/207.md)
- [§208. Regulations governing Federal licensing](/usc/35/208.md)
- [§209. Licensing federally owned inventions](/usc/35/209.md)
- [§210. Precedence of chapter](/usc/35/210.md)
- [§211. Relationship to antitrust laws](/usc/35/211.md)
- [§212. Disposition of rights in educational awards](/usc/35/212.md)