WMOD00269 ‎(2)‎

• Contract/Permit #: 02FC810810
• Title: Weather Damage Modification Program for Cooperative Weather Research between States and the US Department of Interior, Bureau of Reclaimation
• Date: 11/19/2002
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Report

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to the Bureau of Reclamation all instruments necessary to (i) establish or confirm
the rights the Government has throughout the world in those subject inventions to
which the Recipient elects to retain title, and (ii) convey title to the Bureau of
Reclamation when requested under paragraph (d) above and to enable the
government to obtain patent protection throughout the world in that subject
invention.

(2) The Recipient agrees to require, by written agreement, its employees, other
than clerical and nontechnical employees, to disclose promptly in writing to
personnel identified as responsible for the administration of patent matters and in
a format suggested by the Recipient each subject invention made under
agreement in order that the Recipient can comply with the disclosure provisions of
paragraph (c), above, and to execute all papers necessary to file patent
applications on subject inventions and to establish the government's rights in the
subject inventions. This disclosure format should require, as a minimum, the
information required by (c)(1), above. The Recipient shall instruct such
employees through employee agreements or other suitable educational programs
on the importance of reporting inventions in sufficient time to permit the filing of
patent applications prior to U.S. or foreign statutory bars.

(3) The Recipient will notify the Bureau of Reclamation of any decisions not to
continue the prosecution of a patent application, pay maintenance fees, or defend
in a reexamination or opposition proceeding on a patent, in any country, not less
than thirty days before the expiration of the response period required by the
relevant patent office.

(4) The Recipient agrees to include, within the specification of any United
States patent applications and any patent issuing thereon covering a subject
invention, the following statement, "This invention was made with government
support under (identify the agreement) awarded by (identify the Federal agency).
The government has certain rights in the invention."

(g) Subcontracts

The Recipient will include this provision, suitably modified to identify the parties,
in all subagreements or subcontracts, regardless of tier, for experimental,
developmental or research work. The subrecipient or subcontractor will retain all
rights provided for the Recipient in this provision, and the Recipient will not, as
part of the consideration for awarding the subagreement or subcontract, obtain
rights in the subrecipient's or subcontractor's subject inventions.

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