Office of Federal Financial Management; Proposed Policy on Common Summary Report of Inventions

Résumé

OMB's Office of Federal Financial Management (OFFM) proposes to issue a policy directive to establish standard data elements and an interactive Internet web form of these elements to facilitate the submittal of a summary report of inventions. The purpose of a single interactive Internet web form is to have a common government-wide system for this report instead of the numerous, agency-unique summary invention reporting forms currently used by the Federal agencies. An interagency work group developed the data elements as part of the implementation of the Federal Financial Assistance Management Improvement Act of 1999 (Pub. L. 106-107). Consistent with the purposes of that Act, a single common web form will simplify and streamline this reporting process.