 
                   CHAPTER 48--DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
 
                SUBCHAPTER IV--ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
 
                Part B--General Administrative Provisions
 
Sec. 3480. Copyrights and patents

    The Secretary is authorized to acquire any of the following 
described rights if the property acquired thereby is for use by or for, 
or useful to, the Department:
        (1) copyrights, patents, and applications for patents, designs, 
    processes, and manufacturing data;
        (2) licenses under copyrights, patents, and applications for 
    patents; and
        (3) releases, before suit is brought, for past infringement of 
    patents or copyrights.

(Pub. L. 96-88, title IV, Sec. 420, Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 687.)
