Utilization Reporting Form

The University, under the Bayh-Dole Act, is required to report on the utilization of inventions developed with federal funding. To enable the University’s compliance, licensees whose licensed technologies were developed using federal funding, are required to submit the information requested here as often as their licenses require.

Authority

Under 35 U.S.C. 202(c)(5), the Bayh-Dole Act provides agencies with the right to require “periodic reporting on utilization or efforts at obtaining utilization that are being made by the contractor or his licensees or assignees.” This right is further explained in the implementing regulations at 37 CFR 401.14(h). The regulations state that the contractor agrees to submit these reports no more frequently than annually and that the reports “shall include information regarding the status of development, date of first commercial sale or use, gross royalties received by the contractor, and such other data and information as the agency may reasonably specify.” 

Confidentiality

35 U.S.C. 202(c)(5) also discusses the confidentiality of information submitted in utilization reports. It states “That any such information as well any information on utilization or efforts at obtaining utilization obtained as part of a proceeding under section 203 of this chapter shall be treated by the Federal agency as commercial and financial information obtained from a person and privileged and confidential and not subject to disclosure under section 552 of title 5.”