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Incentives
The Technology Transfer Act (Section 13) specifically provides for rewards for scientific, engineering, and technical personnel of Federal agencies.
Agencies can develop policies to implement cash awards for
Under Section 15, which concerns employee activities, it is stated that when the Federal agency has the right of ownership to an invention and does not intend to file for a patent to promote commercialization, the agency must allow the inventor to retain title to the invention, assuming the inventor is a Federal employee or former employee who made the invention while employed by the government.
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