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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[December 17

Steger, Mr. Stone, Mr. Swain; no, none; absent, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Hughes, Governor Ogilvie, Mr. Page.

CONTRACT FOR A FEASIBILITY STUDY IN FACSIMILE PRINTING (29) The Stewart-Warner Corporation has offered to support a feasibility study in the amount of $9,917 to be conducted by the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois in facsimile printing using electrical field forces for ink transfer. The proposed study supports an area of research in which the Department of Electrical Engineering has developed a unique competence in the basic fundamentals applicable to this project. Since this is a feasibility study, it is contemplated that the project may lead to substantial additional support for graduate students and staff in an important field of interest in the Department of Electrical Engineering. University policy provides that patentable discoveries and related rights arising out of such a project will remain the property of the University, but if such discoveries have commercial value, the sponsoring agency may receive preferential consideration in the administration of the patent. The sponsor in this instance has requested that such preferential treatment be defined in advance, as follows: Sponsor shall have an option for the following license under any and all patentable inventions and developments arising out of contract. 1. The option shall be for an exclusive license and shall be exercisable by the sponsor with respect to each invention within 90 (ninety) days after the filing of the patent application; 2. If such option is exercised, sponsor shall pay quarterly to the University a royalty of five per cent (5%) of the net sales price of that portion of the apparatus or method covered by the limitation of the license patent claims (multiple royalties shall not be paid on two or more patents); 3. If for any calendar year, sponsor shall fail to pay a royalty of at least five thousand dollars ($5,000), then the license can be converted to a nonexclusive license by the University giving sponsor ninety (90) days advance written notice. Sponsor can pay such sum as may be necessary to maintain its exclusive license within such ninety (90) days. 4. Sponsor shall have the right to terminate the license with respect to any or all patents upon ninety (90) days notice to the University. 5. The University will have an option of converting the license to a nonexclusive license after a ten-year period. The President, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, recommends approval of the foregoing contract.

On motion of Mr. Clement, this contract was approved as recommended.

HEADSHIP OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY, URBANA (30) The Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has recommended to the Chancellor at Urbana-Champaign the appointment of Dr. Joseph R. Larsen, Jr., presently Professor of Entomology and Physiology, Counselor in the Council on Teacher Education, and Acting Head of the Department of Entomology, as Head of the Department of Entomology beginning January 1, 1970, on an academic year service basis, at an annual salary of $17,600. Dr. Larsen will continue to hold the rank of Professor of Entomology and Physiology on indefinite tenure. This appointment will succeed Dr. Clyde W . Kearns who asked to be relieved of this administrative assignment as of November 1, 1969. The nomination of Dr. Larsen has the support of the Executive Committee of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Dean of the Graduate College. T h e Chancellor at Urbana-Champaign approves the recommendation. The Executive Vice President and Provost concurs. I recommend approval.

On motion of Mr. Clement, this appointment was approved.