Ti | = | Background |
1.sec | = | In the course of conducting biomedical and behavioral research, {_IC} investigators made inventions that may have commercial applicability. |
2.sec | = | By assignment of rights from {_IC} employees and other inventors, {_HHS}, on behalf of the {_Government}, owns intellectual property rights claimed in any United States or foreign patent applications or patents corresponding to the assigned inventions. {_HHS} also owns any tangible embodiments of these inventions actually reduced to practice by {_IC}. |
3.sec | = | The Secretary of {_HHS} has delegated to {_IC} the authority to enter into {_this_Agreement} for the licensing of rights to these inventions. |
4.sec | = | {_IC} desires to transfer these inventions to the private sector through commercialization licenses to facilitate the commercial development of products and processes for public use and benefit. |
5.sec | = | {_Licensee} desires to acquire commercialization rights to certain of these inventions in order to develop processes, methods, or marketable products for public use and benefit. |
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