Common use of Minimum Rights to Awardee Clause in Contracts

Minimum Rights to Awardee. 1. The awardee will retain a non-exclusive royalty-free license throughout the world in each subject invention to which the Government obtains title, except if the awardee fails to disclose the subject invention within the times specified in paragraph c. above. The awardee’s license extends to its domestic subsidiaries and affiliates, if any, within the corporate structure of which the awardee is a party and includes the right to award sublicenses of the same scope to the extent the awardee was legally obligated to do so at the time the award was made. The license is transferable only with the approval of NSF except when transferred to the successor of that part of the awardee’s business to which the invention pertains.

Minimum Rights to Awardee. 1. i. The awardee will retain a non-exclusive royalty-free license throughout the world in each subject invention to which the Government obtains title, except if the awardee fails to disclose the subject invention within the times specified in paragraph c. above. The awardee’s license extends to its domestic subsidiaries and affiliates, if any, within the corporate structure of which the awardee is a party and includes the right to award sublicenses of the same scope to the extent the awardee was legally obligated to do so at the time the award was made. The license is transferable only with the approval of NSF except when transferred to the successor of that part of the awardee’s business to which the invention pertains.