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What rights does the federal government take if it provides research or development support?
The federal government is a huge source of support for corporate research and development; it spends about $24 billion annually on research contracts, and NIH and NSF alone spend $17 billion more on grants. In contrast to the past, the government now allows the contractor to keep all commercial rights in the vast majority of agreements, retaining only government purpose rights in the developments. The government also usually requires substantial U.S. manufacture for the U.S. market, but allows licensing for elsewhere and creates exceptions to this requirement as well.
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