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FAR and DFARS › DFARS Part 252: Solicitation Provisions and Contract Clauses › Subpart 252.2

DFARS 252.227-7011 Assignments.

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 DFARS clause is a patent assignment provision. When included in a contract, the Contractor conveys to the Government its entire right, title, and interest in specified patents and patent applications, including accrued infringement claims and corresponding foreign rights where the Contractor has the right to assign them. It matters because it transfers patent ownership to the Government rather than merely granting a license.

Applies to: Contractors whose contracts include this clause in an assignment

What it requires

  • Convey to the Government the entire right, title, and interest in the listed patents and patent applications
  • Include corresponding foreign patents and applications to the extent the Contractor has the right to assign them

Key terms: Assignment · right, title, and interest · patents · applications for patent · infringement

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

The text

As prescribed at 227.7010, insert the following clause in assignments.

Assignment (AUG 1984)

The Contractor hereby conveys to the Government, as represented by the Secretary of ____________, the entire right, title, and interest in and to the following patents (and applications for patent), in and to the inventions thereof, and in and to all claims and demands whatsoever for infringement thereof heretofore accrued, the same to be held and enjoyed by the Government through its duly appointed representatives to the full end of the term of said patents (and to the full end of the terms of all patents which may be granted upon said applications for patent, or upon any division, continuation-in-part or continuation thereof):

together with corresponding foreign patents and applications for patent insofar as the Contractor has the right to assign the same.

(End of clause)

Sections it refers to

Sections that refer to it

← 252.227-7010 License to other Government agencies. · 252.227-7012 Patent License and Release Contract. →

Rule changes for DFARS Part 252

Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.

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