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July 30, 1951
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. Lawrence Tuttle
Control of patents as now worked out for Public Health Service grants
has proven relatively simple and satisfactory. ve accept the state=
ment of the principal investigator end grantee institution on the
application form that the: will inform us of discoveries or inven=
tions of a Jatentable navure for determination by the Surgeon General
as to disposition of them, In general, we would be reluctant to
complicate or endanger our happy relationship with scientists and
institutions by introducing requirements for special vatent agreements
to be signed by crantees anc employees on grartts of this special type.
Of course, wnere there is definite vrior evidence of patentable
information likely to arise from th: grant, appropriate action would
be taxen,.
In summary, it is our present fee:ing that if the grants uncer
consideration cannot be administered by the Public Health Service in the
Same manner
as for the remainder of its grants program, it woula be pre-
ferable to refer those orojects im which the Atomic Energy Commission is
particularly interested to the Atomic energy Commission for contract
negotiations in accord with its usual practice, we realize that this is
less desirable in attempting to organize an intesrated program than to have
the whole program administered through one organization and that some of
the integration may be lost thereby. Those of us »ost intimately involved
in operations feel, however, that less woulc be lost than if the principles
under which our grant program is administered were compromisec.
Withhope that you and your associates can suggest some happier
method of cooperation in this joint enterprise, I am
Sincerely yours,
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RGiisrl
Ge
Meader,
Ph.
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Chief, Grants & Fellowships Branch
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