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[CITE: 10USC2386]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                PART IV--SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT
 
            CHAPTER 141--MISCELLANEOUS PROCUREMENT PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 2386. Copyrights, patents, designs, etc.; acquisition

    Funds appropriated for a military department available for making or 
procuring supplies may be used to acquire any of the following if the 
acquisition relates to supplies or processes produced or used by or for, 
or useful to, that department:
        (1) Copyrights, patents, and applications for patents.
        (2) Licenses under copyrights, patents, and applications for 
    patents.
        (3) Design and process data, technical data, and computer 
    software.
        (4) Releases for past infringement of patents or copyrights or 
    for unauthorized use of technical data or computer software.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 137; Pub. L. 86-726, Sec. 3, Sept. 
8, 1960, 74 Stat. 855; Pub. L. 103-355, title III, Sec. 3063, Oct. 13, 
1994, 108 Stat. 3337; Pub. L. 104-106, div. A, title VIII, Sec. 813, 
Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 395.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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2386..................................  31:649b.                             Au
g. 1, 1953, ch. 305, Sec.  609,
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7 Stat. 350.
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    The words ``equipment, and materials'' are omitted as covered by the 
word ``supplies''. The word ``hereafter'' is omitted as executed. The 
words ``may be used'' are substituted for the words ``shall * * * be 
available''. The words ``if the acquisition relates to'' are substituted 
for 31:649b (1st 8 words of last sentence). In clauses (1), (2), and 
(4), the word ``patents'' is substituted for the words ``letters 
patent''.


                               Amendments

    1996--Par. (3). Pub. L. 104-106 amended par. (3) generally, 
substituting ``Design and process data, technical data, and computer 
software'' for ``Technical data and computer software''.
    1994--Pars. (3), (4). Pub. L. 103-355 added pars. (3) and (4) and 
struck out former pars. (3) and (4) which read as follows:
    ``(3) Designs, processes, and manufacturing data.
    ``(4) Releases, before suit is brought, for past infringement of 
patents or copyrights.''
    1960--Pub. L. 86-726 inserted ``or copyrights'' after ``patents'' in 
cl. (4).
