35 U.S.C. § 262
Joint owners
United States · Title 35 — PATENTS · Status: effective
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- 35 U.S.C. § 262, Joint owners, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/470889
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In the absence of any agreement to the contrary, each of the joint owners of a patent may make, use, offer to sell, or sell the patented invention within the United States, or import the patented invention into the United States, without the consent of and without accounting to the other owners.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- Uruguay Round Agreements Act