{
  "id": "USC-14",
  "category": "Trademark licensing",
  "capability": "License military trademarks and retain the authorized fees",
  "summary": "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.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2260",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap134-subchapII-sec2260.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Secretary concerned, including the Secretary of Defense for Defense Agencies and Field Activities",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "Relevant DoD mission or program sponsor"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Sponsoring component budget owner and comptroller; available funding not verified"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Secretary concerned, including the Secretary of Defense for Defense Agencies and Field Activities; transaction-specific delegation must be confirmed"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "Program counsel, fiscal officials, and eligible external counterpart as applicable"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "Licensing of intellectual property: retention of fees — statutory holder and execution conditions",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap134-subchapII-sec2260.htm"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "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": [
    "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": [
    "Express retained licensing-fee authority subject to §2260(d)-(e); no current receipts verified."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "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.",
  "availability": "Express statutory pathway identified in the USC scrub. Current implementation, public intake, appropriations, available balances, and transaction-specific delegations were not independently 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.",
  "family": "Intellectual property and technology transfer",
  "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05",
  "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05",
  "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified.",
  "usc_review_notes": [
    "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."
  ],
  "mechanisms": [
    "Licensing & IP",
    "Funds & shared services"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "develop-technology"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "secretary-deputy-secretary",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Secretary concerned, including the Secretary of Defense for Defense Agencies and Field Activities; transaction-specific delegation must be confirmed"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "defense-agencies",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Secretary concerned, including the Secretary of Defense for Defense Agencies and Field Activities; transaction-specific delegation must be confirmed"
    }
  ],
  "family_slug": "intellectual-property-and-technology-transfer",
  "instrument_groups": [
    "Other statutory tools"
  ],
  "executor_route": {
    "id": "execution-usc-14",
    "name": "Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative",
    "label": "Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative",
    "url": "/offices/execution/usc-14/",
    "basis": "Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office."
  },
  "program_context": [],
  "program_research": null,
  "checks": [
    {
      "key": "legal",
      "label": "Legal basis",
      "state": "Sources linked",
      "detail": "Legal sources and instrument limits are recorded."
    },
    {
      "key": "eligibility",
      "label": "Requirements",
      "state": "Gates recorded",
      "detail": "Read the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action."
    },
    {
      "key": "funds",
      "label": "Public funding",
      "state": "Rules recorded",
      "detail": "Express 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.",
      "url": "/capabilities/usc-14/#funding"
    },
    {
      "key": "delegation",
      "label": "Assigned roles",
      "state": "Roles recorded",
      "detail": "Public sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.",
      "url": "/capabilities/usc-14/#roles"
    },
    {
      "key": "execution",
      "label": "Engagement",
      "state": "Program unverified",
      "detail": "Added in the October 5 statutory review; no current implementing program, intake or individual delegation verified.",
      "url": "/sources/usc/"
    }
  ],
  "hard_limit": "This covers the enumerated marks, not a general license of patented inventions, classified information, or weapon technical data."
}