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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1964
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668 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [June 19 PUNDT, HERMAN G., Instructor in Architecture — leave of absence, without pay, for the second semester of the academic year 1963-64, for the purpose of doing graduate study at Harvard University. REESE, MARY C , Associate Professor of Social Work — leave of absence, without pay, for one year from September 1, 1963, for the purpose of study at Smith College School for Social Work. SCHMITT, HOMER C , Professor of Music and Artist in Residence — leave of absence on account of illness, with full pay, from April 19 through August 31, 1963. SMITH, ROBERT J., Professor of Architecture — disability leave of absence, with full pay, extended to March 14, 1963. EXECUTIVE SESSION President Clement announced that an executive session has been requested and was being ordered for consideration of reports and recommendations relating to patentable inventions and property acquisitions' and that this session would be held after luncheon recess. On motion of Mrs. Watkins, the Board recessed. During the recess, a number of prominent citizens of Peoria were guests of the Board at luncheon and were introduced. When the Board reconvened in executive session, the same members of the Board and officers of the University were present as reported at the beginning of these minutes. The Board took up consideration of the following items of business. RECOMMENDATION O F T H E UNIVERSITY PATENT COMMITTEE (1) The University Patent Committee submits, with the concurrence of the Chairman of the University Research Board, the following recommendation relating to an invention by members of the staff. Over the past five years, ten patentable inventions have been developed in the Antenna Laboratory of the Department of Electrical Engineering. The inventors are Robert L. Carrel, former Research Assistant and Research Associate in Electrical Engineering (1955-60); R. H . DuHamel, former Research Assistant in Electrical Engineering (1947-50, 1952-56); D. E. Isbell, former Antenna Technician in Electrical Engineering (1957-59); John D. Dyson, Associate Professor of Electrical Enginering; and Paul E. Mayes, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. The rights of the University in these inventions have been transferred to the University of Illinois Foundation. The Foundation has applied for and obtained patents on certain of the inventions and has negotiated with the J F D Electronics Corporation, Brooklyn, New York, for the marketing of an antenna, which to some degree is based upon or includes certain novel features stated in all the inventions involved. It appears that income on licenses will be received from the J F D Electronics Corporation. Based on information from the Department of Electrical Engineering concerning the degree of contribution of the inventors to the final product, the Patent Committee recommends that: All income received on these antenna patents be pooled; and patent and development expenses incurred by the Foundation, past and future, be reimbursed or paid from such pooled sum. After allowing for all expenses, 20 per cent of the amount thus received be allocated for payment to the inventors and 80 per cent be retained by the University of Illinois Foundation for its chartered purposes. For the present, the sum allocated to the inventors be distributed: Robert L. Carrel, one-ninth; R. H . DuHamel, one-ninth; John D. Dyson, two-ninths; D. E. Isbell, two-ninths; and Paul E. Mayes, three-ninths. It should be recognized, when approving the distributions to the inventors, that in all likelihood there will be additional inventions in the future further contributing to the improvement of the antenna being developed and marketed and that, accordingly, changes in or additions to the percentage distribution to the inventors may be necessary. The Patent Committee therefore recommends approval by the Board of
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