Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1976 [PAGE 510]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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University Patents, Inc., reported that the idea is novel and that it has potential application in the field of dairy herd breeding. The University Patent Committee recommends that the rights of the University in this invention be transferred to the University of Illinois Foundation for commercialization and that a total of 15 percent of the net income received by the University of Illinois Foundation from the invention, after the payment of any costs and expenses of securing a patent and of development and administration, be shared by the inventors. 2. Electron Microscope Grid Holder — John Kissling Brady, Research Assistant in Electrical Engineering, and Robert F. Noyes, formerly Supervisor, Research Laboratory Shop in Electrical Engineering, Urbana, inventors. University Patents, Inc., reported that patentability is likely and that a licensee has been located. The University Patent Committee therefore recommends that the rights of the University in this invention be transferred to the University of Illinois Foundation for commercialization. 3. Antibody Coated Bacteria for Immunological Procedures — Marius C. Teodorescu, Associate Professor of Microbiology in the School of Basic Medical Sciences, Eugene P. Mayer, Instructor in Microbiology in the School of Basic Medical Sciences, and Sheldon Dray, Professor of Microbiology and Head of the Department in the School of Basic Medical Sciences, Medical Center, inventors; developed under the sponsorship of the United States Public Health Service. University Patents, Inc., reported that the idea for this invention has significant commercial potential. T h e University Patent Committee therefore recommends that the idea be transferred to the University of Illinois Foundation, subject to the rights of the United States Public Health Service, and that 15 percent of the net income received by the University of Illinois Foundation from the invention, after the payment of any costs and expenses of securing a patent and of development and administration, be shared by the inventors. 4. Techniques for Accomplishing Direct Electrical Read-out of the Information Stored in a Plasma Display Panel — Roger L. Johnson, Research Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and in the Coordinated Science Laboratory and the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory, and Larry L. Weber, Visiting Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and in the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory, Urbana, inventors; developed under the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation, the United States Air Force, and the United States Army. 5. Radial and Circumferential Magnetic Head Positioning Mechanism — Roger L. Johnson, Research Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and in the Coordinated Science Laboratory and the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory, Donald L. Bitzer, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory, Lyle E. Bandy, Supervisor, Research Laboratory Shop in the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory, and Dominic O. Skaperdas, Associate Director of the Computerbased Education Research Laboratory and Senior Research Engineer in the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory, Urbana, inventors; developed under the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation. Inventions numbers four and five were developed with support from the National Science Foundation, which holds all patent rights. In 1972, the University Patent Committee voted to recommend that the rights of the University be transferred to the University of Illinois Foundation, and greater rights were requested from the sponsor. Because the request for greater rights was refused, these recommendations of the Patent Committee were not presented to the President. The United States patents on these ideas have been assigned to the National Science