To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On January 4, 2021, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published proposed rules for comment changing regulations promulgated under the Bayh-Dole Act (35 U.S.C. §§ 200-204), which allow businesses and nonprofit institutions, in most circumstances, to take title to inventions made under federally funded projects (subject inventions) and to freely commercialize items, and methods used to produce items, embodying subject inventions. Principal among the changes proposed is a reboot of 37 C.F.R. § 401.6, titled “Exercise of march-in rights,” where NIST proposes additional processes and instructions for the consideration and exercise of such rights by an agency. Over 18,000 comments were received by NIST (the deadline was April 5, 2021), the majority of which addressed NIST’s attempt to clarify that the Government’s ability to “march in” and wrest control of a patented invention