Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1986 [PAGE 575]

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BOARD OF

TRUSTEES

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by increasing the inventor's share of royalty return, encourages timely decisions on the disposition of disclosed inventions, and provides an appeal process before a committee with faculty representation. It streamlines administrative assignments and procedures and permits them to change in response to changing needs with the approval of the president. The policies on copyrights were reformulated recently and adopted by the board on July 21, 1983. T h e changes proposed here reflect desirable alterations based upon experience with the reformulated policies. Both the proposed new Sections 5[b], 7, 8, 9 and 10[c] and the sections they supersede are attached for review and comparison. 1 Both senates have approved these changes. The University Committee on Patents and Copyrightable Works and the vice president for academic affairs have recommended their adoption, effective immediately. As approved, they would constitute University policy covering all University-owned inventions and copyrightable works regardless of when they were disclosed or created. Invention royalties which are received after the board adopts these new policies shall be shared with inventors in accordance with the provisions of the new Article I I , Section 7[f]. Whether an inventor receives 50 percent or 25 percent of the cumulative net income as provided in Section 7[f] shall be determined by the cumulative net income received on the invention since it was first disclosed to the University. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . F o r s y t h , t h e s e revisions w e r e a p p r o v e d . General Rules Concerning University Organization and Procedure

A R T I C L E I I . BUSINESS O R G A N I Z A T I O N AND P O L I C I E S SEC. 5. R E S E A R C H G I F T S , GRANTS, AND C O N T R A C T S (b) Contracts for research shall specify that the results of scientific research conducted by die University, including inventions and discoveries, are the property of the University, to be used for the benefit of the University and the public, but the sponsoring agency may receive preferential consideration in the disposition of the invention or discovery as provided in Article I I , Section 7 (e). SEC. 7 I N V E N T I O N S AND D I S C O V E R I E S (a) Objectives. The University recognizes that inventions and discoveries (hereinafter "inventions" 2 ) may result from the activities of University employees in the course of their duties or through the use of University facilities, funds, or resources. It is the University's policy that such inventions shall be administered so as to be brought into practical use for public benefit at the earliest possible time. In the development of its technology, the University's objectives are to encourage and facilitate such development by all means appropriate to a publicly supported institution and to advance the respective interests of the University, its research sponsors, and its inventors. (b) Ownership. Except as otherwise specified by the University in writing, inventions shall belong to the University if conceived or reduced to practice: (1) by a University employee as a result of the employee's duties; or, (2) through the use, by any person, including a University employee, of University resources such as facilities, equipment, funds, or funds under the control of or administered by the University. In the event there is a question about an invention as to whether the University has an ownership claim, the invention should be disclosed to the University. Such disclosure is widiout prejudice to the inventor's ownership claim. In determining ownership interest in an invention, a designated official may determine that die University has no property interest in the invention because its

The text that follows is the final version as approved by the Board of Trustees. ' For purposes of this policy, the definition of an "invention" includes "any device, process, material, plant, product, or other innovation."

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