Retain government-use rights and conditionally intervene in federally funded inventions
- Objective
- Develop a technology
- Family / instrument
- Intellectual property and technology transfer · Intellectual property & technology transfer
- Statute
- Authority holder
- Funding federal agency, with specified agency-head decisions
- Executor · routing lead
- DARPA Contracts Management Office or Service contracting/grants/agreements office; Performing laboratory or external research performer
Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)
Subject invention and applicable funding agreement; disclosure/title-election/patent conditions.
March-in requires failure of practical application, unmet health/safety or regulatory public-use need, or U.S. manufacturing-agreement violation.All requirements & limits
Recorded funding condition (excerpt)
Government license follows covered research funding; exercising it still requires money for procurement/use.All funding conditions
What this does not authorize / limits
Not general power to seize all privately developed patents, cap market prices, or obtain proprietary manufacturing know-how.
- March-in includes administrative process and judicial review; some determinations stayed through appeal.
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
EngagementRole recorded
Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction. Express statutory pathway; award-specific appropriations, available balances, delegations, implementation and approvals not independently verified.
Actor sources
- DARPA Contracts Management Office — award and administration roles
- Army Technology Transfer Program — agreement tools and laboratory roles
Independent public-source guide; not an official U.S. government website. Original research target October 2, 2026; published October 3, 2026. Read the full record for currentness, coordination and all source notes.