# Removal of Obsolete Patent Regulations
> **National Institutes of Health** · Final rule. · Published 1996-10-22 · Effective 1996-10-22 · 61 FR 54743
## Document
- **Document number:** 96-26975
- **Category:** research
- **Sub-agency:** National Institutes of Health
- **Federal Register citation:** 61 FR 54743
- **CFR reference:** 45 CFR 6
- **Publication date:** 1996-10-22
- **Effective date:** 1996-10-22
## Abstract

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is rescinding the regulations concerning inventions and patents generally and inventions resulting from research grants and contracts and fellowship awards, because the regulations are obsolete.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1996/10/22/96-26975/removal-of-obsolete-patent-regulations)
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