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Description
- An Employee Invention Report (EIR) form is a standardized Public Health Service (PHS) form used to report a lab employee's invention. The purpose of the EIR is to document the invention by asking the inventor for specific information and to evaluate whether or not the government should seek patent protection for this invention. The EIR also serves as an aid in searching the technical and patent literature to determine if the invention is patentable.
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