FAR and DFARS › DFARS Part 227: Patents, Data, and Copyrights › Subpart 227.70

DFARS 227.7013 Recordation.

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.

In plain English

This section requires executive departments and agencies to forward all Government interests in patents or patent applications to the Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks for recording. It matters to contractors because it means the Government will record its interest in patents or applications arising from Government work.

Applies to: Executive departments and agencies of the Government

What it requires

Forward all Government interests in patents or applications for patents to the Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks for recording

Key terms: Government interests · patents · applications for patents · recording · Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks

Written by AI from this section's text. A guide, not legal advice: the text below rules.

The text

Executive Order No. 9424 of 18 February 1944 requires all executive Departments and agencies of the Government to forward through appropriate channels to the Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks, for recording, all Government interests in patents or applications for patents.

← 227.7012 Contract format. · 227.7100 Scope of subpart. →

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.