---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 178j"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "178j"
heading: "Laws governing inventions under this subchapter"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/178j"
units:
  - "Chapter 8A — Rubber and Other Critical Agricultural Materials"
  - "Subchapter II — Critical Agricultural Materials"
---

# §178j. Laws governing inventions under this subchapter


Relative to the definitions of, title to, and licensing of inventions made or conceived in the course of or under any contract or grant pursuant to this subchapter, and notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the provisions of sections [5908](/usc/42/5908.md) and [5909](/usc/42/5909.md) of title 42 shall govern.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–592, § 12, Nov. 4, 1978, 92 Stat. 2533.)