35 USC 181
Listed by: NARA Registry, DoD Registry, Related authorities
Designation evidence
- NARA authority row: 35 USC 181 | status: Basic | banner: CUI.
- DoD authority row: 35 USC 181. DoD lists this citation for the category; this DoD detail page does not display a separate Basic/Specified field.
- Related authority evidence: 35 USC 181 | status: Basic | banner: CUI
- Related authority evidence: DoD lists this authority for the category; the linked authority text is extracted below when available.
- Registry designation context: Basic, CUI. The linked authority text contains category-scope or applicability language that helps determine when the information falls within this CUI category. The linked authority text contains disclosure, access, protection, release, dissemination, or distribution-control language relevant to handling. The linked authority text contains violation, penalty, sanction, or enforcement language that may affect consequences for mishandling.
- Registry designation for this category is Basic with banner CUI.
Extracted authority meaning
- Page 78 TITLE 35—PATENTS § 181
- Registry designation context: Basic, CUI. The linked authority text contains category-scope or applicability language that helps determine when the information falls within this CUI category. The linked authority text contains disclosure, access, protection, release, dissemination, or distribution-control language relevant to handling. The linked authority text contains violation, penalty, sanction, or enforcement language that may affect consequences for mishandling.
Operating conditions
- NARA category scope used with this authority: An order by the Commissioner of Patents that an invention be kept secret and to withhold the publication of an application or the grant of a patent due to national security concerns.
- DoD category scope used with this authority: An order by the Commissioner of Patents that an invention be kept secret and to withhold the publication of an application or the grant of a patent due to national security concerns.
- 35 USC 181 | status: Basic | banner: CUI
- DoD lists this authority for the category; the linked authority text is extracted below when available.
- NARA registry status: Basic. Per-authority NARA status values: Basic. NARA banner marking evidence: CUI. The registry evidence is preserved here; detailed primary-law or regulation text analysis remains pending for this category.
- NARA category scope: An order by the Commissioner of Patents that an invention be kept secret and to withhold the publication of an application or the grant of a patent due to national security concerns.
- Extracted authority condition: Penalty Whoever, during the period or periods of time an invention has been ordered to be kept secret and the grant of a patent thereon withheld pur- suant to section 181, shall, with knowledge of such order and without due authorization, will- fully publish or disclose or authorize or cause to be published or disclosed the invention, or mate- rial information with respect thereto, or who- ever willfully, in violation of the provisions of section 184, shall file or cause or authorize to be filed in any foreign country an application for patent or for the registration of a utility model, industrial design, or model in respect of any in- vention made in the United States, shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $10,000 or im- prisoned for not more than two years, or both.
- Extracted authority condition: Definitions As used in this chapter— (a) The term ‘‘Federal agency’’ means any executive agency as defined in section 105 of title 5, and the military departments as de- fined by section 102 of title 5.
- Extracted authority condition: The owner of any patent issued upon an application that was sub- ject to a secrecy order issued pursuant to sec- tion 181, who did not apply for compensation as above provided, shall have the right, after the date of issuance of such patent, to bring suit in the United States Court of Federal Claims for just compensation for the damage caused by rea- son of the order of secrecy and/or use by the Government of the invention resulting from his disclosure.
- Extracted authority condition: Filing of application in foreign country (a) F ILING INFOREIGNCOUNTRY.—Except when authorized by a license obtained from the Com- missioner of Patents a person shall not file or cause or authorize to be filed in any foreign country prior to six months after filing in the United States an application for patent or for the registration of a utility model, industrial design, or model in respect of an invention made in this country.
- Extracted authority condition: (b) A PPLICATION.—The term ‘‘application’’ when used in this chapter includes applications and any modifications, amendments, or supple- ments thereto, or divisions thereof.
Safeguarding and dissemination controls
- NARA registry control evidence: status Basic; banner marking CUI.
- Nara basic or specified: Basic
- Nara authority rows: 35 USC 181 | status: Basic | banner: CUI
- Nara banner markings: CUI
- No DoD required dissemination control is listed on the registry page. Apply approved limited dissemination controls only when required or permitted by the designating agency or governing authority.
- Use the registry assertions, NARA authority rows, DoD authorities, DoD policies, warning statements, required dissemination controls, and examples first. Where the cited authority does not specify a handling detail, apply CUI Basic safeguards and dissemination rules so long as they do not conflict with the authority or agency-specific controls.
- Extracted authority control: Filing of application in foreign country (a) F ILING INFOREIGNCOUNTRY.—Except when authorized by a license obtained from the Com- missioner of Patents a person shall not file or cause or authorize to be filed in any foreign country prior to six months after filing in the United States an application for patent or for the registration of a utility model, industrial design, or model in respect of an invention made in this country.
- Extracted authority control: If a person reasonably relied on such invalidity or unenforceability, the court before which such matter is in question may provide for the continued manufac- ture, use, or sale of the thing made, purchased, or used as specified, or for the manufacture, use, or sale of which substantial preparation was made before the date of enactment of this section, and it may also pro- vide for the continued practice of any process prac- ticed, or for the practice of which substantial prepara- tion was made, prior to the date of enactment of this section, to the extent and under such terms as the court deems equitable for the protection of invest- ments made or business commenced before such date of enactment. ‘‘(4) The amendments made by this section shall not affect the right of any party in any case pending in court on the date of enactment of this section [Aug. 23, 1988] to have its rights or liabilities— ‘‘(A) under any patent before the court, or ‘‘(B) under any patent granted after such date of enactment which is related to the patent before the court by deriving priority rights under section 120 or 121 of title 35, United States Code, from a patent or an application for patent common to both patents, determined on the basis of the substantive law in effect before the date of enactment of this section.’’ P ROMULGATION OFREGULATIONS Pub.
- Extracted authority control: Secrecy of certain inventions and with- holding of patent Whenever publication or disclosure by the publication of an application or by the grant of a patent on an invention in which the Govern- ment has a property interest might, in the opin- ion of the head of the interested Government agency, be detrimental to the national security, the Commissioner of Patents upon being so noti- fied shall order that the invention be kept secret and shall withhold the publication of the appli- cation or the grant of a patent therefor under the conditions set forth hereinafter.
- Extracted authority control: Right to compensation An applicant, his successors, assigns, or legal representatives, whose patent is withheld as herein provided, shall have the right, beginning at the date the applicant is notified that, except for such order, his application is otherwise in condition for allowance, or February 1, 1952, whichever is later, and ending six years after a patent is issued thereon, to apply to the head of any department or agency who caused the order to be issued for compensation for the damage caused by the order of secrecy and/or for the use of the invention by the Government, resulting from his disclosure.
- Extracted authority control: The license may be granted retroactively where an application has been filed abroad through error and the application does not disclose an invention within the scope of section 181.
- Extracted authority control: Penalty Whoever, during the period or periods of time an invention has been ordered to be kept secret and the grant of a patent thereon withheld pur- suant to section 181, shall, with knowledge of such order and without due authorization, will- fully publish or disclose or authorize or cause to be published or disclosed the invention, or mate- rial information with respect thereto, or who- ever willfully, in violation of the provisions of section 184, shall file or cause or authorize to be filed in any foreign country an application for patent or for the registration of a utility model, industrial design, or model in respect of any in- vention made in the United States, shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $10,000 or im- prisoned for not more than two years, or both.
- Extracted authority control: Abandonment of invention for unauthor- ized disclosure The invention disclosed in an application for patent subject to an order made pursuant to sec- tion 181 may be held abandoned upon its being established by the Commissioner of Patents that in violation of said order the invention has been published or disclosed or that an application for a patent therefor has been filed in a foreign country by the inventor, his successors, assigns, or legal representatives, or anyone in privity with him or them, without the consent of the Commissioner of Patents.
Authority excerpts
Most relevant extracted authority passageFiling of application in foreign country (a) F ILING INFOREIGNCOUNTRY.—Except when authorized by a license obtained from the Com- missioner of Patents a person shall not file or cause or authorize to be filed in any foreign country prior to six months after filing in the United States an application for patent or for the registration of a utility model, industrial design, or model in respect of an invention made in this country.
Extracted authority passage 2If a person reasonably relied on such invalidity or unenforceability, the court before which such matter is in question may provide for the continued manufac- ture, use, or sale of the thing made, purchased, or used as specified, or for the manufacture, use, or sale of which substantial preparation was made before the date of enactment of this section, and it may also pro- vide for the continued practice of any process prac- ticed, or for the practice of which substantial prepara- tion was made, prior to the date of enactment of this section, to the extent and under such terms as the court deems equitable for the protection of invest- ments made or business commenced before such date of enactment. ‘‘(4) The amendments made by this section shall not affect the right of any party in any case pending in court on the date of enactment of this section [Aug. 23, 1988] to have its rights or liabilities— ‘‘(A) under any patent before the court, or ‘‘(B) under any patent granted after such date of enactment which is related to the patent before the court by deriving priority rights under section 120 or 121 of title 35, United States Code, from a patent or an application for patent common to both patents, determined on the basis of the substantive law in effect before the date of enactment of this section.’’ P ROMULGATION OFREGULATIONS Pub.
Extracted authority passage 3Secrecy of certain inventions and with- holding of patent Whenever publication or disclosure by the publication of an application or by the grant of a patent on an invention in which the Govern- ment has a property interest might, in the opin- ion of the head of the interested Government agency, be detrimental to the national security, the Commissioner of Patents upon being so noti- fied shall order that the invention be kept secret and shall withhold the publication of the appli- cation or the grant of a patent therefor under the conditions set forth hereinafter.
Extracted authority passage 4Right to compensation An applicant, his successors, assigns, or legal representatives, whose patent is withheld as herein provided, shall have the right, beginning at the date the applicant is notified that, except for such order, his application is otherwise in condition for allowance, or February 1, 1952, whichever is later, and ending six years after a patent is issued thereon, to apply to the head of any department or agency who caused the order to be issued for compensation for the damage caused by the order of secrecy and/or for the use of the invention by the Government, resulting from his disclosure.
Extracted authority passage 5The license may be granted retroactively where an application has been filed abroad through error and the application does not disclose an invention within the scope of section 181.
Extracted authority passage 6Penalty Whoever, during the period or periods of time an invention has been ordered to be kept secret and the grant of a patent thereon withheld pur- suant to section 181, shall, with knowledge of such order and without due authorization, will- fully publish or disclose or authorize or cause to be published or disclosed the invention, or mate- rial information with respect thereto, or who- ever willfully, in violation of the provisions of section 184, shall file or cause or authorize to be filed in any foreign country an application for patent or for the registration of a utility model, industrial design, or model in respect of any in- vention made in the United States, shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $10,000 or im- prisoned for not more than two years, or both.