[Ip-health] NIH on 1498

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Report of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Working Group on Research Tools
Presented to the Advisory Committee to the Director
June 4, 1998

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 Rights of government agencies. As a government agency, NIH may use and
manufacture any patented invention, whether or not developed with
federal funds, and authorize its use and manufacture by others for the
United States, without a license, subject to liability for "reasonable
and entire compensation" under 28 U.S.C. §1498.