Common use of Minimum Rights to Contractor Clause in Contracts

Minimum Rights to Contractor. 1. The Contractor will retain a non-exclusive royalty-free license throughout the world in each subject invention to which the Government obtains title, except if the Contractor fails to disclose the subject invention within the times specified in paragraph c. above. The Contractor's license extends to its domestic subsidiaries and affiliates, if any, within the corporate structure of which the Contractor is a party and includes the right to grant sublicenses of the same scope to the extent the Contractor was legally obligated to do so at the time the contract was awarded. The license is transferable only with the approval of NSF except when transferred to the successor of that part of the Contractor's business to which the invention pertains.