Common use of Minimum License Clause in Contracts

Minimum License. The User reserves an irrevocable, nonexclusive, paid-up license in each patent application filed in any country on a Subject Invention and any resulting patent in which the User does not elect to retain title or in which the Government acquires title. The license shall extend to the User's domestic subsidiaries and affiliates, if any, within the corporate structure of which the User is a part and shall include the right to grant sublicenses of the same scope to the extent the User was legally obligated to do so at the time this Agreement was entered into. The license shall be transferable only with approval of DOE except when transferred to the successor of that part of the User's business to which the invention pertains.

Minimum License. The User reserves an irrevocable, nonexclusive, paid-up license in each patent application filed in any country on a Subject Invention and any resulting patent in which the User does not elect to retain title or in which the Government acquires title. The license shall extend to the User's ’s domestic subsidiaries and affiliates, if any, within the corporate structure of which the User is a part and shall include the right to grant sublicenses of the same scope to the extent the User was legally obligated to do so at the time this Agreement was entered into. The license shall be transferable only with approval of DOE except when transferred to the successor of that part of the User's ’s business to which the invention pertains.