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Executive Order 12618

Uniform treatment of Federally funded inventions

Signed by Ronald Wilson Reagan on December 22, 1987.

No later action on file
Signed recordDecember 22, 1987

The date the President signed it.

Publication record52 FR 48661

The Federal Register edition of the order.

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Amends EO 12591, April 10, 1987

The National Archives records of later actions cover January 8, 1937 to January 19, 2017.

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