Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1980 [PAGE 522]

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3. Multicompartment Filter Disk — Michael G. Gabridge, associate professor in microbiology in the School of Basic Medical Sciences, Urbana, inventor; developed with support from the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. University Patents, Inc., reported that this discovery had limited patentability and little marketability. T h e University Patent Committee recommends release of the University's rights to the sponsor. 4. Nutrient-electrolyte Solution — David H. Baker, professor of animal science, Urbana, inventor. University Patents, Inc., reported that advantages over presently available products were insufficient to support needed investment. T h e University Patent Committee recommends that the University retain shop rights and release all other rights in this disclosure to the inventor. 5. Segmented Memory Addressing Mechanism for Digital Computers which Uses Tags on Index Registers — Douglas Warren Jones, graduate research assistant at the Medical Computing Laboratory, School of Clinical Medicine, Urbana, inventor. University Patents, Inc., reported limited patentability and little marketability. The University Patent Committee recommends that the University retain shop rights and release all other patent rights in this disclosure to the inventor. 6. Self Home Tonometer — Ran Zeimer, research associate in ophthalmology, Medical Center, inventor. University Patents, Inc., reported limited commercial acceptance of the disclosed invention. The University Patent Committee recommends that the University retain shop rights and release all other patent rights in this disclosure to the inventor. 7. Risks Driving Potential Operability Measurement Model — Harold Forest Risk, former graduate assistant in health and safety education, Urbana, and Michael Watkins, former student in mechanical and industrial engineering, Urbana, inventors. University Patents, Inc., reported that little patent protection will be available. T h e University Patent Committee recommends that the University retain shop rights and release all other patent rights to the inventors. I concur in these recommendations.

Recommendations of the Committee on Copyrightable Works

(17) University staff members who work as producers for WILL-AM and -FM stations are regularly assigned to create program segments for these stations. These segments are occasionally selected by National Public Radio ( N P R ) , on the basis of merit, for rebroadcast on the national network. With such selection is a monetary award which at present is paid to the University. (Under the General Rules Concerning University Organization and Procedure, the University may assign to authors or developers on copyrights owned by it, a proportionate share of income after deducting expenses. On these radio program segments, the first use of the material on WILL-AM or -FM recovers the net investment.) T h e Committee on Copyrightable Works has recommended that income u p to and including $500 from such awards for the first external use of program segments developed at WILL-AM and -FM be assigned to the developers of those segments. Such an assignment, it is believed, would be an added incentive to outstanding performance in this area.