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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 831r. Patents; access to Patent and Trademark Office and right to copy patents; compensation to patentees
The Corporation, as an instrumentality and agency of the
Government of the United States for the purpose of executing its
constitutional powers, shall have access to the United States
Patent and Trademark Office for the purpose of studying,
ascertaining, and copying all methods, formula, and scientific
information (not including access to pending applications for
patents) necessary to enable the Corporation to use and employ the
most efficacious and economical process for the production of fixed
nitrogen, or any essential ingredient of fertilizer, or any method
of improving and cheapening the production of hydroelectric power,
and any owner of a patent whose patent rights may have been thus in
any way copied, used, infringed, or employed by the exercise of
this authority by the Corporation shall have as the exclusive
remedy a cause of action against the Corporation to be instituted
and prosecuted on the equity side of the appropriate district court
of the United States, for the recovery of reasonable compensation
for such infringement. The Under Secretary of Commerce for
Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and
Trademark Office shall furnish to the Corporation, at its request
and without payment of fees, copies of documents on file in his
office: Provided, That the benefits of this section shall not apply
to any art, machine, method of manufacture, or composition of
matter, discovered or invented by such employee during the time of
his employment or service with the Corporation or with the
Government of the United States.
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