Regulations for the Cooperation between National Defense Technology Institutions and Private Entities for Research, Development, Production, Manufacture and Maintenance Article 14

Paragraph (1)The ownerships of intellectual property rights arising from the research and development, production and manufacture, or maintenance works done through cooperation or mutual commissioning between a National Defense Technology Institution and a Private Entity in accordance with these Regulations shall be expressly stipulated in the agreement.Paragraph (2)If the intellectual property rights under the preceding paragraph belong to the Private Entity, the agreement shall expressly stipulate that the National Defense Technology Institution shall have gratuitous, global, non-exclusive and non-assignable rights to the intellectual property; provided, however, that this requirement does not apply if the rights are assigned to a National Defense Technology Institution under the competent authority which has no cooperation or mutual commissioning arrangement with the Private Entity.