8 recordsWhat this group is not: These pathways do not supply interchangeable powers or funds; each retains its own purpose, procedures and exclusions.
Basis: ACQ-43, FIN-01, FIN-11
Example limit · ACQ-11: CRADA expressly does not permit providing federal funds to nonfederal collaborator. Use a separately justified grant, contract or OT if paying the partner.
Recorded executing roles: Laboratory ORTA, counsel and authorized agreement official; Warranted contracting officer and program manager; DARPA Contracts Management Office or Service contracting/grants/agreements office; Performing laboratory or external research performer
Examine these authorities →ACQ-11 · Technology transferCollaborate with nonfederal parties using laboratory staff, facilities, equipment and IP; accept and retain partner funds and negotiate invention rights.
What this is not / limit: CRADA expressly does not permit providing federal funds to nonfederal collaborator. Use a separately justified grant, contract or OT if paying the partner.
Executing role: Laboratory ORTA, counsel and authorized agreement official
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Contract or enter qualifying agreements with state/local-associated intermediary organizations for technology-transfer and cooperative-activity support.
What this is not / limit: Not every private accelerator/consultant qualifies.
Executing role: Laboratory ORTA, counsel and authorized agreement official
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Obtain/protect federal patents and grant nonexclusive, exclusive or partially exclusive licenses, royalty-free or for consideration, while retaining government-use rights.
What this is not / limit: Government retains paid-up license and termination protections.
Executing role: Laboratory ORTA, counsel and authorized agreement official
Licensing & IP
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Acquire ownership/licensing rights, technical/design/process data and software useful to military-department supplies or processes, including releases for past infringement.
What this is not / limit: Buying an item does not automatically buy its IP, source code or manufacturing data.
Executing role: Warranted contracting officer and program manager
Licensing & IP
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Under covered small-business/nonprofit funding agreements, allow contractor title while retaining a paid-up government license; invoke statutory march-in only on specified findings.
What this is not / limit: Not general power to seize all privately developed patents, cap market prices, or obtain proprietary manufacturing know-how.
Executing role: DARPA Contracts Management Office or Service contracting/grants/agreements office; Performing laboratory or external research performer
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28 U.S.C. 1498 supplies a compensation remedy against the United States for patented inventions used/manufactured by or for it without license; contractor protection requires government authorization or consent.
What this is not / limit: Not confiscation of patent ownership or general permission for private-market sales.
Executing role: Warranted contracting officer and program manager
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Acquire negotiated data rights, enforce federally funded rights, challenge unsupported restrictions, and use specified private-data exceptions for emergency repair or integration.
What this is not / limit: Private-expense data generally protected; statutory exceptions and negotiated rights are not ownership of all contractor IP.
Executing role: Warranted contracting officer and program manager
Licensing & IP
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Retain laboratory invention licensing receipts, reward inventors and eligible contributors, and reinvest statutory balances in technology transfer, workforce and mission research.
What this is not / limit: Not unrestricted profit retention: residual amounts, excess-receipt shares and expired balances go to Treasury.
Executing role: Laboratory ORTA, counsel and authorized agreement official
Licensing & IP
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Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.