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FAR 52.227-7 — Patents-Notice of Government Licensee

Solicitation provision · dated Apr 1984 · current through FAC 2026-01

The official text, verbatim

FAR 52.227-7 · Apr 1984 current through FAC 2026-01 acquisition.gov eCFR (48 CFR)

As prescribed at 27.202-5(b), insert the following provision:

Patents-Notice of Government Licensee (Apr 1984)

The Government is obligated to pay a royalty applicable to the proposed acquisition because of a license agreement between the Government and the patent owner. The patent number is ____ [Contracting Officer fill in], and the royalty rate is ____ [Contracting Officer fill in]. If the offeror is the owner of, or a licensee under, the patent, indicate below:

□ Owner □ Licensee

If an offeror does not indicate that it is the owner or a licensee of the patent, its offer will be evaluated by adding thereto an amount equal to the royalty.

(End of provision)

The text above is reproduced from GSA's published FAR source files (GSA/GSA-Acquisition-FAR @ da52ccb (2026-03-30)), retrieved 2026-07-17. The official publication at acquisition.gov / eCFR controls if they differ.
This is the FAR text. Your contract may not use it. An agency supplement (DFARS, GSAM, HHSAR, AGAR …) can add to this clause, and a class deviation can replace its text outright for a whole agency — neither of which changes what the FAR itself says, so neither appears above. Check the solicitation for a deviation notice, and see agency supplements for the supplement clauses we publish. We do not currently track class deviations.

In plain English

FAR 52.227-7, Patents-Notice of Government Licensee, is a solicitation provision shown with its prescription in the official text, most recently dated Apr 1984. The complete official text is reproduced above, verbatim, from GSA's published FAR source files.

Its text contains no sentence requiring insertion into subcontracts; see the flowdown section below for what that does and does not mean.

Does it flow down to subcontracts?

No flowdown mandate found in the clause text

This is a solicitation provision — it applies to offerors when submitting an offer, not to contract performance, so subcontract flowdown is generally not the operative question for it.