Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1980 [PAGE 362]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Sec. 2. PATENTS O N I N V E N T I O N S [The principle is recognized that the results of experimental work carried on by or under the direction of the members of the staff of the University,] The results of research or development carried on at the University by any of its faculty, employees, students, or other users of its facilities and having the expenses thereof paid from University funds or from funds under the control of the University, belong to the University and [should be] are to be used and controlled in ways to produce the greatest benefit to the University and to the public. [Any member of the staff of the University who has made an invention as the direct result of his regular duties on University time and at University expense,] An inventor whose discovery or invention is subject to the conditions of the previous paragraph is required to disclose the discovery or invention to the University and may be required to patent the discovery or invention, and to assign the patent to the University, the expenses connected therewith to be borne by the University. [The above shall not be construed to include] This section shall not apply to questions of ownership [in copyrights on books, or] of inventions made by members of the staff outside of their regular duties, and [at their own expense] without the use of University funds or funds under the control of the University, and without the use of University facilities. [The rules and regulations regarding patents and the procedures to be followed are contained in the General Rules Concerning University Organization and Procedure.] Sec. 3. S C I E N T I F I C AND SCHOLARLY P U B L I C A T I O N S AND CREATIVE WORK It is the policy of the University to foster the publication of scientific and scholarly periodicals which are edited, published and subsidized by the University. It is further the policy of the University that authors and artists who are members of the academic ranks recognized in Article IX, Section 3, may copyright their works except works specifically commissioned by the University in writing and works prepared under terms of a University grant or contract which provides otherwise. [Rules governing the sponsoring of such periodicals, and copyrights and recordings, are contained in T h e General Rules Concerning University Organization and Procedure.] Sec. 4. RULES ABOUT RESEARCH, PATENTS, AND PUBLICATIONS The General Rules Concerning University Organization and Procedure shall contain rules and regulations governing patents, copyrightable works, recordings, sponsored periodicals, and the acceptance of contracts, gifts, and grants for research, and the procedures to be followed. Proposed changes in these General Rules related to patents, copyrightable works, or recordings shall be sent to the University Senates Conference which shall move as expeditiously as practicable and, if necessary, reconcile the views of the several Senates and advise the President and, through the President, the Board of Trustees before such a rule change is adopted. Article I X , Section 7 No person shall be admitted to candidacy for an advanced degree [on] in a [campus] department or division of the University [if he] who holds an appointment as professor, associate professor, or assistant professor in [any] that department or division, [of that campus of the University. Any] Likewise, no person while engaged in graduate study [who accepts an appointment with] shall be appointed to the rank of assistant professor or higher [at a campus of the University will be dropped as a degree candidate at that campus of the University.] in the department or division of that graduate study. A person in or accepting the rank of assistant professor or higher on a campus of the University may continue in or be admitted to advanced degree candidacy in