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USC-14 / Intellectual property and technology transfer

License military trademarks and retain the authorized fees

License specified military trademarks and other covered marks, retain fees for the licensing program and eligible morale, welfare, and recreation uses, and apply special nonexclusive licensing terms for qualifying U.S. toy or hobby manufacturers.

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Authority / instrument · USC-14

Trademark licensing

Intellectual property and technology transfer

Statute & instrument
Authority holder

Secretary concerned, including the Secretary of Defense for Defense Agencies and Field Activities

What this does not authorize / hard limit

This covers the enumerated marks, not a general license of patented inventions, classified information, or weapon technical data.

Recorded executor

Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative

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Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.

Legal basisSources linkedLegal sources and instrument limits are recorded.
RequirementsGates recordedRead the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action.
Public fundingRules recordedExpress retained licensing-fee authority subject to §2260(d)-(e); no current receipts verified. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument.
Assigned rolesRoles recordedPublic sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.
EngagementProgram unverifiedAdded in the October 5 statutory review; no current implementing program, intake or individual delegation verified.

Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction.

At a glance

Possible toolUSC-14 · Licensing & IP
Legal basis10 U.S.C. §2260

Authority holder: Secretary concerned, including the Secretary of Defense for Defense Agencies and Field Activities

Licensing & IPFunds & shared services

Mechanism tags describe the source text; they do not expand the authority.

Availability and verification

Express statutory pathway identified in the USC scrub. Current implementation, public intake, appropriations, available balances, and transaction-specific delegations were not independently verified.

Requirements and limits

Eligibility & prerequisites

  • Designate the marks whose fees will be retained and follow the prescribed regulations.
  • For qualifying toy or hobby companies, use nonexclusive, nontransferable licenses and the special cost-recovery-plus-nominal fee restriction.
  • Retained fees are available in the receipt year and following two fiscal years.

Limits & exclusions

  • This covers the enumerated marks, not a general license of patented inventions, classified information, or weapon technical data.
  • Receipts first support registration and program costs; only excess supports specified MWR activities.

Funding conditions

  • Express retained licensing-fee authority subject to §2260(d)-(e); no current receipts verified.

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Who contributes what

Need & planning

  • Relevant DoD mission or program sponsor

Resources

  • Sponsoring component budget owner and comptroller; available funding not verified

Approval

  • Secretary concerned, including the Secretary of Defense for Defense Agencies and Field Activities; transaction-specific delegation must be confirmed
    Office profile
    Office profile

Execution

  • Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative

Partners & review

  • Program counsel, fiscal officials, and eligible external counterpart as applicable

Office links are editorial matches to the original role text, not verified delegations. Composite labels and unmatched actors are preserved.

Coordination pathway

Mission sponsor → relevant program or personnel lead → counsel and fiscal review → official holding the required authority → eligible counterpart. Named functions are routing guidance, not verified individual delegations.

Actor and execution-role sources

October 5 statutory review

Added in the October 5 statutory coverage review. The cited legal mechanism and its conditions were examined; a current implementing program, intake, funding balance and individual delegation were not verified.

Section coverage and review findings

Legal basis

  • 10 U.S.C. §2260Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record.

What this research establishes

Legal basisSources linkedLegal sources and instrument limits are recorded.
RequirementsGates recordedRead the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action.
Public fundingRules recordedExpress retained licensing-fee authority subject to §2260(d)-(e); no current receipts verified. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument.
Assigned rolesRoles recordedPublic sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.
EngagementProgram unverifiedAdded in the October 5 statutory review; no current implementing program, intake or individual delegation verified.

Confidence: High on the cited statutory text and express conditions; operational availability is unverified.

Currentness: Reviewed 2026-10-05 against official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 enacted-amendment search. OLRC direct pages were intermittently under maintenance. This is not an exhaustive certification of legislation after that baseline, funding, implementation, or individual delegation.

Review scope: Record reviewed 2026-10-05. Publication is not legal-currentness certification.

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