Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1986 [PAGE 578]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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the Vice Chancellor for Research on each campus, the Vice President for Academic Affairs, the Vice President for Business and Finance, and the University Counsel. The Committee shall make recommendations to the President regarding procedures, guidelines, and responsibilities for the administration and development of inventions and such other matters as the President shall determine. The Committee shall report periodically to the Board of Trustees and the President on inventions disclosed and the disposition thereof. (d) Exceptions to policy. Recommendations for exceptions to the provisions of Section 7 of this Article shall be made by the Intellectual Property Committee to the President for presentation to the Board of Trustees. (e) Appeals. Subject to rules and procedures developed by the University Intellectual Property Committee, a University inventor may appeal to the Committee to seek resolution of complaints or questions regarding the matters contained in or authorized by Sections 7 and 8. (f) Timeliness. It is the intent of the University that inventions once disclosed by the inventors, will be handled in a timely and expeditious manner by the designated persons on each campus and within the Central Administration. With this end in mind, an inventor with an invention under consideration will be put in contact with an appropriate administrator who will monitor the progress of the invention through the patent process. Appeals (Section 8[e]) on the basis of timeliness may be made by either the inventor or by this administrator. SEC. 9. C O P Y R I G H T S (a) Introduction. The policy of the University with regard to copyrightable works is intended to foster the traditional freedoms of the University's faculty, staff and students in matters of publication, through a fair and reasonable balance of the equities among authors, sponsors, and the University. At the same time, it is intended to ensure that copyrightable materials in which the University has a legitimate interest are utilized in a manner consistent with the public interest. (b) Ownership. Ownership in copyrightable works produced by authors who are University staff members or students shall remain with the authors except in the following situations where such rights of ownership as it may require shall vest with the University: (1) The terms of a University agreement with an external party require the University to hold or transfer ownership in the copyrightable work, or (2) Works expressly commissioned in writing by the University, or (3) Works created as a specific requirement of employment or as an assigned University duty. Such requirements or duties may be contained in a job description or an employment agreement which designates the content of the employee's University work. If such requirements or duties are not so specified, such works will be those for which the topic or content is determined by the author's employment duties a n d / o r which are prepared at the University's instance and expense, that is, when the University is the motivating factor in the preparation of the work. I n a particular employment situation, if an author is uncertain about the ownership of the works referred to in this paragraph ( b ) , before undertaking the assignment the author shall be entitled to request in writing and to receive a clarifying written statement from the author's department head or supervisor. When the University commissions the preparation of a copyrightable work by an author who is not a University staff member or student, the contract with such author shall specify that the author convey by assignment such rights as are required by the University. With respect to copyrightable works owned by the University pursuant to this paragraph ( b ) , the authors may be required to execute such documents as are necessary to vest ownership in such works in the University or its designee. Authors