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252.227-7004 License grant.

Prescription and Applicability

DFARS Prescription, 227.7009-3(a)

(a) License Grant. Insert the clause at 252.227-7004 .

Current Text

252.227-7004 License grant.

As prescribed at 227.7009-3(a), insert the following clause in patent releases, license agreements, and assignments:

License Grant (AUG 1984)

(a) The Contractor hereby grants to the Government an irrevocable, nonexclusive, nontransferable, and paid up license under the following patents, applications for patent, and any patents granted on such applications, and under any patents which may issue as the result of any reissue, division or continuation thereof, to practice by or cause to be practiced for the Government throughout the world, any and all of the inventions thereunder, in the manufacture and use of any article or material, in the use of any method or process, and in the disposition of any article or material in accordance with law:

U.S. Patent No.

Date

Application Serial No.

Filing Date

together with corresponding foreign patents and foreign applications for patents, insofar as the Contractor has the right to grant licenses thereunder without incurring an obligation to pay royalties or other compensation to others solely on account of such grant.

(b) No rights are granted or implied by the agreement under any other patents other than as provided above or by operation of law.

(c) Nothing contained herein shall limit any rights which the Government may have obtained by virtue of prior contracts or by operation of law or otherwise.

(End of clause)

Active Class Deviations Affecting This Clause

Class Deviation 2026-O0036, DFARS RFO Implementation (Part 27)

  • Status: Active
  • Date Issued: 2026-02-01
  • Change type: MODIFIED
  • Action: Modified by RFO class deviation

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