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Ingested titles 12–51 and 54 from OLRC USLM XML @119-100 (the whole Code now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 -> 59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun, verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make legal-us-code default now covers every title. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "LegalText"
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title: "20 U.S.C. § 3480"
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description: "Copyrights and patents"
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jurisdiction: "us"
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corpus: "united_states_code"
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kind: "code_section"
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title_number: 20
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title_name: "EDUCATION"
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chapter_number: "48"
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chapter_name: "DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION"
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section: "3480"
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citation: "20 U.S.C. § 3480"
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status: "current"
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release_point: "119-100"
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release_date: "2026-06-26"
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source: "official"
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source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc20@119-100.zip"
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source_identifier: "/us/usc/t20/s3480"
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confidence: "official"
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tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
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---
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# 20 U.S.C. § 3480 - Copyrights and patents
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## Text
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The Secretary is authorized to acquire any of the following described rights if the property acquired thereby is for use by or for, or useful to, the Department:
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(1) copyrights, patents, and applications for patents, designs, processes, and manufacturing data;
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(2) licenses under copyrights, patents, and applications for patents; and
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(3) releases, before suit is brought, for past infringement of patents or copyrights.
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(Pub. L. 96–88, title IV, § 420, Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 687.)
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