35 U.S.C. § 212 — Disposition of rights in educational awards

This section is a single, undivided rule with no lettered subsections. It applies whenever a federal agency provides a scholarship, fellowship, training grant, or other funding agreement, and that funding is given primarily to the awardee for educational purposes. The rule says that agreement cannot contain any provision giving the federal agency rights to inventions the awardee makes. So if someone gets this kind of federal educational funding and later invents something, the funding agreement itself cannot be used to give the federal agency ownership or rights over that invention. The section does not address funding agreements that are not primarily educational, and it does not say what happens to inventions made under other kinds of federal awards, such as grants that are not primarily educational in nature.