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 110 STAT. 778 PUBLIC LAW 104-113—MAR. 7, 1996 employees who are not an inventor of such inventions but who substantially increased the technical value of such inventions. "(iii) The agency or laboratory shall retain the royalties and other payments received from an invention until the agency or laboratory makes payments to employees of a laboratory under clause (i) or (ii). "(B) The balance of the royalties or other payments shall be transferred by the agency to its laboratories, with the majority share of the royalties or other payments from any invention going to the laboratory where the invention occurred. The royalties or other payments so transferred to any laboratory may be used or obligated by that laboratory during the fiscal year in which they are received or during the succeeding fiscal year— "(i) to reward scientific, engineering, and technical employees of the laboratory, including developers of sensitive or classified technology, regardless of whether the technology has commercial applications; "(ii) to further scientific exchange among the laboratories of the agency; "(iii) for education and training of employees consistent with the research and development missions and objectives of the agency or laboratory, and for other activities that increase the potential for transfer of the technology of the laboratories of the agency; "(iv) for payment of expenses incidental to the administration and licensing of intellectual property by the agency or laboratory with respect to inventions made at that laboratory, including the fees or other costs for the services of other agencies, persons, or organizations for intellectual property management and licensing services; or "(v) for scientific research and development consistent with the research and development missions and objectives of the laboratory. "(C) All royalties or other payments retained by the agency or laboratory after payments have been made pursuant to subparagraphs (A) and (B) that is unobligated and unexpended at the end of the second fiscal year succeeding the fiscal year in which the royalties and other payments were received shall be paid into the Treasury."; (2) in subsection (a)(2)-^ (A) by inserting "or other payments" after "royalties"; and (B) by striking "for the purposes described in clauses (i) through (iv) of paragraph (1)(B) during that fiscal year or the succeeding fiscal year" and inserting in lieu thereof "under paragraph (1)(B)"; (3) in subsection (a)(3), by striking "$100,000" both places it appears and inserting "$150,000"; (4) in subsection (a)(4)— (A) by striking "income" each place it appears and inserting in lieu thereof "payments"; (B) by striking "the pa3anent of royalties to inventors" in the first sentence thereof and inserting in lieu thereof "payments to inventors";

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