U.S. Department
of Justice
Application of 18 U.S.C. § 209 to Employee-Inventors Who Receive Outside Royalty Payments
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Headnotes
A federal government employee who obtains patent rights to an invention made in the course of federal employment ordinarily does not violate 18 U S.C. § 209 by licensing the patent rights to a private entity and receiving royalty payments in exchange.
Updated July 9, 2014