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15 U.S.C. § 2511 — Patents

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15 U.S.C. § 2511 — Patents

[Section 5908 of title 42](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section5908&num=0&edition=prelim) shall apply to any contract (including any assignment, substitution of parties, or subcontract thereunder), entered into, made, or issued by the Secretary of Energy pursuant to [section 2507 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section2507&num=0&edition=prelim).

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15 U.S.C. § 2502 — Definitions

As used in this chapter, the term— (1) Omitted. (2) “advanced electric or hybrid vehicle” means a vehicle which— (A) minimizes the total amount of energy to be consumed with respect to its fabrication, operation, and disposal, and represents a substantial improvement over existing electric and hybrid vehicles with respect to the total amount of energy so consumed; (B) is capable of being mass-produced and operated at a cost and in a manner which is sufficiently competitive to enable it to be produced and sold in numbers representing a reasonable portion of the market; (C) is safe, damage-resistant, easy to repair, durable, and operates with sufficient performance with respect to acceleration, cold-weather starting, cruising speed, and other performance factors; and (D) at a minimum, can be produced, distributed, operated, and disposed of in compliance with any applicable requirement of Federal law; (3) “commercial electric or hybrid vehicle” includes any electric or hybrid vehicle which can be used (A) for business or agricultural production purposes on farms (e.g. tractors and trucks) or in rural areas, or (B) for commercial purposes in urban areas; (4) “electric vehicle” means a vehicle which is powered by an electric motor drawing current from rechargeable storage batteries, fuel cells, or other portable sources of electrical current, and which may include a nonelectrical source of power designed to charge batteries and components thereof; (5) “hybrid vehicle” means a vehicle propelled by a combination of an electric motor and an internal combustion engine or other power source and components thereof; (6) “project” means the Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Research, Development, and Demonstration Project established under [section 2503(a) of this title]

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15 U.S.C. § 2507 — Contracts

**(a) Research, development, and demonstration** The Secretary of Energy shall provide funds, by contract, to initiate, continue, supplement, and maintain research, development, and demonstration activities which are necessary to carry out the purposes of the project. The Secretary of Energy may enter into such contracts with any Federal agency, laboratory, university, nonprofit organization, industrial organization, public or private agency, institution, organization, corporation, partnership, or individual. **(b) Consultation** In addition to the requirements of sections 2503 and 2504 of this title, the Secretary of Energy, in the exercise of his duties and responsibilities under this section, shall consult with the Department of Transportation, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Department of Agriculture, and representatives of other appropriate Federal agencies, and shall establish procedures for periodic consultation with representatives of science, industry, and such other groups as may have special expertise in electric and hybrid vehicle research, development, and demonstration. **(c) Rules of Secretary of Energy; funding applications; required advertising** Each contract under this section shall be entered into in accordance with such rules as the Secretary of Energy may prescribe in accordance with the provisions of this section. Each application for funding shall be made in writing in such form and with such content and other submissions as the Secretary of Energy shall require. The Secretary of Energy may enter into contracts under this section without regard to [section 6101 of title 41](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title41-section6101&num=0&edition=prelim). **(d) Pu

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42 U.S.C. § 5908 — Patents and inventions

**(a) Vesting of title to invention and issuance of patents to United States; prerequisites** Whenever any invention is made or conceived in the course of or under any contract of the Department, other than nuclear energy research, development, and demonstration pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 ([42 U.S.C. 2011](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section2011&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.) and the Secretary determines that— (1) the person who made the invention was employed or assigned to perform research, development, or demonstration work and the invention is related to the work he was employed or assigned to perform, or that it was within the scope of his employment duties, whether or not it was made during working hours, or with a contribution by the Government of the use of Government facilities, equipment, materials, allocated funds, information proprietary to the Government, or services of Government employees during working hours; or (2) the person who made the invention was not employed or assigned to perform research, development, or demonstration work, but the invention is nevertheless related to the contract or to the work or duties he was employed or assigned to perform, and was made during working hours, or with a contribution from the Government of the sort referred to in clause (1).11 So in original. Probably should be a comma. title to such invention shall vest in the United States, and if patents on such invention are issued they shall be issued to the United States, unless in particular circumstances the Secretary waives all or any part of the rights of the United States to such invention in conformity with the provisions of this section. **(b) Contract as requiring report to Department of invention, etc.,

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15 U.S.C. § 2511 — Patents

Page 1845 TITLE 15—COMMERCE AND TRADE § 2512 1 See References in Text note below. owned in the case of a corporation, association, or partnership operating a vessel in the coast- wise trade, shall not be applicable. The Sec- retary of Energy, in consultation with the Sec- retary of State, may waive such requirements in the case of a corporation, partnership, firm, or association, controlling interest in which is owned by citizens of countries which are partici- pants in the International Energy Agreement. (j) Pledge of full faith and credit of United States The full faith and credit of the United States is pledged to the payment of all obligations in- curred under this section. (Pub. L. 94–413, § 10, Sept. 17, 1976, 90 Stat. 1267; Pub. L. 95–91, title III, § 301(a), Aug. 4, 1977, 91 Stat. 577; Pub. L. 95–238, title VI, § 603, Feb. 25, 1978, 92 Stat. 93; Pub. L. 103–437, § 5(d)(2), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4582.) Editorial Notes CODIFICATION In subsec. (e)(3)(C), ‘‘chapter 31 of title 31’’ and ‘‘that chapter’’ substituted for ‘‘the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended’’ and ‘‘that Act’’, respectively, on au- thority of Pub. L. 97–258, § 4(b), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1067, the first section of which enacted Title 31, Money and Finance. In subsec. (i), ‘‘section 50501 of title 46’’ substituted for ‘‘section 2 of the Shipping Act of 1916 (46 U.S.C. 802)’’ and ‘‘subsections (a) and (b) of such section 50501’’ substituted for ‘‘subsection (a) of such section 2’’ on au- thority of Pub. L. 109–304, § 18(c), Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1709, section 8(b) of which enacted parts A and B of sub- title V of Title 46, Shipping. AMENDMENTS 1994—Subsec. (e)(1). Pub. L. 103–437 substituted ‘‘Com- mittee on Science, Space, and Technology’’ for ‘‘Com- mittee on Scienc

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