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Code · U.S. Code · Title 20 - EDUCATION · CHAPTER 48— DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION · SUBCHAPTER IV— ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS · § 3480

§ 3480. Copyrights and patents

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The Secretary is authorized to acquire any of the following described rights if the property acquired thereby is for use by or for, or useful to, the Department:
(1)copyrights, patents, and applications for patents, designs, processes, and manufacturing data;
(2)licenses under copyrights, patents, and applications for patents; and
(3)releases, before suit is brought, for past infringement of patents or copyrights.
(Pub. L. 96–88, title IV, § 420, Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 687.)
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