Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1984
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1982] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 23 tural operations activity. T h e chancellor at Urbana-Champaign has recommended that the University enter into the lease. T h e executive vice president concurs. I recommend approval. On motion of Dr. Donoghue, this recommendation was approved. Recommendations of the University Patent Committee (29) T h e University Patent Committee recommends that the actions described below be taken in regard to inventions and discoveries made at the University of Illinois. Background information concerning the individual cases has been sent to the Committee on Patents of the Board of Trustees. 1. Time Mark Generator (TMG) Module-—Vaidotas J. Simaitis, senior research engineer in the Department of Physics, Urbana-Champaign, inventor; developed with support from the U.S. Department of Energy. University Patents, Inc., reported that it did not elect to subject this disclosure to the terms of the servicing agreement. T h e University Patent Committee recommends that the University place the discovery in the public domain, subject to the sponsor's approval. 2. Carbonation (Co2 Enrichment) of Hot Weather Drinking Water—Paul C. Harrison, professor of animal science, Urbana-Champaign, inventor. University Patents, Inc., reported that it did not elect to subject this disclosure to the terms of the servicing agreement. T h e University Patent Committee recommends that the University retain rights to make and use this concept and release all other patent rights to the inventor. I concur. On motion of Dr. Donoghue, these recommendations were approved. Agreement with Ford Motor Company (Exception to the General Ru/es) (30) Ford Motor Company has offered to support research in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the Urbana-Champaign campus in the field of design procedures for vibration compensation in light duty trucks. T h e proposed agreement with Ford Motor Company contains provisions concerning the sponsor's rights in patentable discoveries that are outside the scope of preferential treatment allowed by the General Rules Concerning University Organization and Procedure. T h e agreement would grant to the sponsor and its affiliated companies an irrevocable, nonexclusive, paid-up license to any patentable discoveries arising from the sponsored research. Should any discovery be made jointly by employees or staff of both the University and Ford, the invention would be jointly owned. T h e University Patent Committee has reviewed the proposed agreement and recommends approval. T h e executive vice president also recommends approval. I concur. On motion of Dr. Donoghue, this recommendation was approved. Agreement with Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center (31) On February 18, 1982, the Board of Trustees approved a research contract between the University and Baxter Travenol Laboratories, Inc., regarding artificial erythrocytes. Under the agreement, any future inventions and discoveries arising from the sponsored research will be exclusively licensable to the sponsor at the sponsor's option. T h e principal investigator for the research project, Dr. Irving Miller, is coinventor of an existing invention, the patent for which is owned by the
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