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FAR and DFARS › FAR Part 27: Patents, Data, and Copyrights › Subpart 27.3

FAR 27.300 Scope of subpart.

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 subpart sets out the policies, procedures, solicitation provisions, and contract clauses that apply to inventions made while performing experimental, developmental, or research work under a Government contract or subcontract. It matters to contractors because it tells them where the rules for such inventions come from, including possible agency supplemental regulations. It does not itself impose specific obligations on contractors.

Applies to: Government contracts and subcontracts for experimental, developmental, or research work

Key terms: inventions · experimental, developmental, or research work · solicitation provisions · contract clauses · agency supplemental regulations

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The text

This subpart prescribes policies, procedures, solicitation provisions, and contract clauses pertaining to inventions made in the performance of work under a Government contract or subcontract for experimental, developmental, or research work. Agency policies, procedures, solicitation provisions, and contract clauses may be specified in agency supplemental regulations as permitted by law, including 37 CFR 401.1.

← 27.204-2 Use of patented technology under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). · 27.301 Definitions. →

Rule changes for FAR Part 27

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

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