Finance committee  There's one more clause. Clause 279 has two parts. The first amends the National Research Council Act to broaden the NRC's rights to dispose of its intellectual property to include all forms of intellectual property and future intellectual property rights that may arise under co

Finance committee  It's to expand the intellectual property rights to forms of intellectual property other than patents.

Finance committee  Other forms of intellectual property include things such as copyrights, which is more common with respect to software. This clarifies the NRC's authority, with respect to disposing of intellectual property to those other forms of copyright, aside from patents. Right now, the act