Hey Government Award Recipients, Don't Miss the Point!
The consequence for failing to disclose inventions conceived or reduced to practice with government money, or for failing to timely elect title to, or timely file patent applications covering those inventions, is that the government can request title to the invention and corresponding patent. See 10 CFR 784-12(d)(1)-(3) and 48 CFR 52.227-11(d)(1)(i) and (ii). I recently had an email exchange with a company CEO who wrote, I have been doing this for 20 years now and have not h