52.227-7 Patents—Notice of Government Licensee.
Prescription and Applicability
FAR Prescription, 27.202-5(b)
(b) If the Government is obligated to pay a royalty on a patent involved in the prospective contract, insert in the solicitation a provision substantially the same as the provision at 52.227-7, Patents-Notice of Government Licensee. If the clause at 52.227-6 is not included in the solicitation, the contracting officer may require offerors to provide information sufficient to provide this notice to the other offerors.
Current Text
52.227-7 Patents—Notice of Government Licensee.
As prescribed at 27.202-5(b), insert the following provision:
Patents—Notice of Government Licensee (APR 1984)
The Government is obligated to pay a royalty applicable to the proposed acquisition because of a license agreement between the Government and the patent owner. The patent number is ____ [ Contracting Officer fill in ], and the royalty rate is ____ [ Contracting Officer fill in ]. If the offeror is the owner of, or a licensee under, the patent, indicate below:
( ) Owner ( ) Licensee
If an offeror does not indicate that it is the owner or a licensee of the patent, its offer will be evaluated by adding thereto an amount equal to the royalty.
(End of provision)
[49 FR 12988, Mar. 30, 1984, as amended at 72 FR 63066, Nov. 7, 2007]
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