FAR and DFARS › DFARS Part 227: Patents, Data, and Copyrights › Subpart 227.70
DFARS 227.7012 Contract format.
The codified text (eCFR, as of 2026-10-02). Under the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul ↗, agencies follow class deviations with new text for many parts while the formal rules go through the Federal Register: check the solicitation and your contract's clauses, which rule.
The text
The format at 252.227-7012 appropriately modified where necessary, may be used for contracts of release, license, or assignment.
Sections it refers to
- 252.227-7012 Patent License and Release Contract.
Sections that refer to it
- 252.227-7012 Patent License and Release Contract.
← 227.7011 Procurement of rights in inventions, patents, and copyrights. · 227.7013 Recordation. →
Rule changes for DFARS Part 227
- Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement; Technical Amendments ↗ · final rule 2025-08-25 · effective 2025-08-25
- Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Small Business Innovation Research Program Data Rights (DFARS Case 2019-D043) ↗ · final rule 2024-12-18 · effective 2025-01-17
- Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Use of DoD Program Nomenclature (DFARS Case 2021-D002) ↗ · proposed 2024-02-15 · comments due 2024-04-15
Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.