The President's News Conference
07/28/1948
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All Government departments and agencies shall, whenever practicable, acquire the right to file foreign patent applications on inventions res...
The Department of State, in consultation with the Department of Commerce, shall negotiate arrangements among governments under which each go...
The Department of Commerce shall determine whether, and in what foreign jurisdictions, the United States should seek patents for such invent...
There shall be exempted from the provisions of this order (a) all inventions within the jurisdiction of the Atomic Energy Commission except ...