No scholarship, fellowship, training grant, or other funding agreement made by a Federal agency primarily to an awardee for educational purposes will contain any provision giving the Federal agency any rights to inventions made by the awardee.

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Terms Used In 35 USC 212

  • Federal agency: means any executive agency as defined in section 105 of title 5, and the military departments as defined by section 102 of title 5. See 35 USC 201
  • funding agreement: means any contract, grant, or cooperative agreement entered into between any Federal agency, other than the Tennessee Valley Authority, and any contractor for the performance of experimental, developmental, or research work funded in whole or in part by the Federal Government. See 35 USC 201
  • made: when used in relation to any invention means the conception or first actual reduction to practice of such invention. See 35 USC 201