The internal patent instructions (IPIs) were originally established as a means for providing a common reference source to all patent counsel offices on centralized instructions, as stated in the memorandum, Establishment of ERDA Internal Patent Instructions (IPI), dated, July 29, 1977.  The IPIs will now be made available through this URL site and will be reviewed annually during the month of June.  The field offices are encouraged to submit comments or suggestions for improving or updating the IPIs for the listed categories or for proposing draft IPIs that may prove beneficial.

All posted IPIs were reviewed on April 6, 2006.  This is an interim list of IPIs.  We anticipate posting the entire list of IPIs by the end of June 2007.

Claims and Litigation

• No documents available.

Contracts and Contract Administration

• Electronic Lab Notebooks (2/14/03)
• Background Rights in Patents and Inventions (9/18/04)
• Surveillance Responsibility (updated 8/28/06)
• License Acquisition Upon Contracting (8/28/06)

Copyrights

• Transfer Of Copyright (3/23/07)

Laboratory Transactions

• Bailment of Bio Mats and Tangible Research Prod (9/3/98)
• Development and Use of Open Source Software (2/1/02)
• M&O click wrap software licenses (1/5/05)
• Procedures Regarding US Trade Representative (3/23/07)
• Proprietary Information in Technical Data (3/25/96)

Patent Prosecution

• Assignments for Inventors Who are Not U.S.Citizens (8/9/06)
• Electronic Lab Notebooks (2/14/03)
• Filing Classified Pat Appln
• Pat Appln Filing and Waiver Proc (4/21/95)
• Electronic Filing & Prosecuting, Internal Patent Instruction for Patent Counsel (6/20/06)

Trademarks

• Trademark Application and Licensing Procedures (4/5/07)

Waivers

• Advance Waivers - Limitation of Applicability (6/20/06)
• Procedures for Extensions of a Waiver to a Subcontract (6/20/06)
• Consideration of Late Filed Waiver Petitions (6/20/06)
• Closing Language Patent Waiver Grant Cases (3/22/07)
• Transmittal Letters Statement Of Consideration (8/15/80)
• U.S. Competitiveness Provision (3/4/98)
• Format of Petition for Advance Waiver of Patent Rights (5/21/08)