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 60 STAT.] UNITED KINGDOM-PATENT RIGHTS, ETC.-MAR. 27, 194 mean all natural persons who on May 8, 1945 were exclusively subjects of the United Kingdom, all corporations, partnerships, and associa- tions organized under the laws of the United Kingdom, and all natural persons domiciled or resident in the United Kingdom on May 8, 1945, as well as the Government of the United Kingdom and all of its agencies, but the term "nationals" in relation to the United Kingdom shall not include natural-persons who on May 8, 1945 were exclusively citizens of the United States of America even though they were domiciled or resident in the United Kingdom on that date. (c) The basic principle as to which Government shall undertake and bear the cost of procurement in doubtful cases shall be decided according to whether dollar or sterling costs are necessarily involved. In the former case the Government of the United States of America will effect acquisition and in the latter case the Government of the United Kingdom will effect acquisition, but each Government will pay the remuneration and other expenses of its own representatives incurred in connection with communicating any research or manufac- turing information to the other Government. ARTICLE II All patent rights so acquired shall be acquired and used for the pur- poses of, and until the termination of, the war only, unless otherwise expressly provided, except that contracts entered into (for the produc- tion, use, or disposition of articles) which cannot be terminated with- out penalty, may be completed, and all articles on hand at the termi- nation of the war, or completed as permitted herein, may be used and disposed of. Information, inventions, designs, or processes so acquired and not covered by patents or patent applications shall be acquired upon such terms as may most expeditiously make such information, inventions, designs, or processes available for the purposes of the war, with provision, to the extent practicable, for the limitation of the use thereof for the purposes of and until the termination of the war. When the information, invention, design, or process is of a category for which the other Government requests secrecy upon security grounds, each Government will take such steps as it deems practicable to ensure the appropriate degree of secrecy in manufacture and use. The term "termination of the war", for the purposes of this Agree- ment, shall mean the date when the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the United Kingdom have ceased to be jointly engaged in actual hostilities against a common enemy, or such other date as may be mutually agreed upon, and shall not be dependent on the date of the signing of a peace treaty. 1567 Duration. "Termination of the war." ARTICLE III Such acquisition by the Government of the United States of America Proed- will be effected in accordance with regular Lend-Lease procedure (or its then current equivalent) and will be financed under such program, except that other procedure may be used in those instances where no expenditure of funds is necessary. 80634o 0 -48--- . 1--30

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