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in the health sciences require as a condition to making grants for research that patentable inventions or developments be administered solely in the public interest. Some organizations require assignment of such discoveries to them; others stipulate that they be allowed to approve the disposition of the developments; and a third group merely requires that discoveries be dedicated to the public through publication. This is not entirely in accord with University policy, which provides that the University shall control these developments for the benefit of the public and the University, and considerable difficulty is experienced in negotiations for grants from such organizations in support of research. Accordingly, the Patent Committee recommends that the waiver of University patent policy given to the American Cancer Society in 1950, whereby the patent policy of the granting organization shall apply, rather than customary University patent policy, be extended to the following organizations in those cases where such waiver is required by them and the policy of the organization requires dedication of the invention or development to the public: American Foundation for Tropical Medicine American H e a r t Association Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation Asthmatic Children's Aid Canadian Cancer Society Chicago Heart Association Damon Runyan Cancer Fund Leukemia Research Association Life Insurance Medical Research Fund Muscular Dystrophy Association National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis National Foundation for Prevention of Blindness National Multiple Sclerosis Society National Tuberculosis Association National Vitamin Foundation United Cerebral Palsy Association I concur in these recommendations.

On motion of Mr. Grange, these recommendations were approved.

BIENNIAL OPERATING BUDGET 1 9 5 5 - 5 7 (4) The state law requires that the University file with the Department of Finance, on or before November 1, of each even-numbered year, a budget of requests for appropriations for the biennium beginning the following July 1. I submit herewith the following recommendations: (1) proposed operating budget of salaries, expense, and equipment, and (2) proposed budget of capital additions. The operating budget is the result of an intensive review by a special budget committee headed by the Provost. The capital budget is based upon the recommendations of the Building Program Committee and the Committee on Future Development of the Chicago Undergraduate Division. The budgets have also been reviewed broadly with the University Council. In each instance substantial reductions have been made in the requests from the various departments and colleges, and the resulting proposals include the sums which in the judgment of the University administration represent the amounts needed to carry on and develop the activities of the University in an adequate and comprehensive manner during the coming biennium. By direction of the Board these budgets were submitted in advance to a special committee of the Board and were intensively reviewed by it. The recommendations of this committee are submitted with this report. I concur in the recommendations and request that the budgets be approved as a basis for filing with the Department of Finance and further discussion with the state administration and the Budgetary Commission. Report of the Special Committee on the 1955-57 Biennial Budget T h e Committee appointed to review the biennial budget of the University for 1955-57 rnet in the Illini Center, Chicago, on October 18, 1954. All members of the Committee were present; the President of the University, the Provost, the Comptroller, and the Assistant to the Comptroller were also present.