Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel September 7, 2000 (Application of 18 U.S.C. § 209 to Employee-Inventors Who Receive Outside Royalty Payments)

Application of 18 U.S.C. § 209 to Employee-Inventors Who

Receive Outside Royalty Payments

A federal g o v ern m en t em ployee w ho obtains p aten t rights to an invention m ade in the course o f

federal em p lo y m en t ordinarily does not violate 18 U S.C.