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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Gift for a Legal Seminar to be Held in Brazil

(19) T h e Chancellor at the Urbana-Champaign campus has recommended the acceptance of a gift from the Banco Lar Brasileiro S.A. in the amount of 25,000 cruzeiros ($1,500) to be utilized in defraying the costs associated with a Public Sector Attorneys Seminar to be conducted in May 1977 in Brazil. T h e seminar consists of a special training program for public sector attorneys in Brazil, which the College of Law at the Urbana-Champaign campus is undertaking jointly with agencies of the Brazilian government and the Organization of American States. A condition of the gift specifies that the funds involved must be received and expended within the territorial limits of Brazil. Therefore, in order to facilitate the handling of financial transactions pertaining to the gift, it is further recommended that a bank account be established in the name of the University at the Banco Lar Brasileiro S.A. in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to facilitate required payments for goods and services. I concur.

On motion of Mr. Livingston, these recommendations were approved. Granting of Exclusive License to Control Data Corporation for PLATO and TUTOR Trademarks

(20) O n February 18, 1976, the Board of Trustees authorized the execution of a nonexclusive trade and service marks agreement between Control Data Corporation (CDC) and the University covering the use by C D C of the names of P L A T O and TUTOR. Control Data Corporation has been investing substantial resources to market P L A T O both in this country and abroad. A recent assessment of their position in the market and a concern for the protection of their investments has led C D C to conclude that they should either develop new trade and service marks or negotiate with the University to terminate the existing nonexclusive license for the use of the marks and replace the same with different arrangements. CDC has now proposed that it acquire an assignment of the P L A T O trade and service marks and a perpetual nonexclusive paid up license of the T U T O R mark for the sum of $125,000, payable as follows: $45,000 upon execution of the exclusive use agreement, $40,000 one year from the date of agreement execution, and $40,000 two years from the date of agreement execution. T h e agreement would reserve to the University free usage of the marks and would contain a provision for reversion of the assignment of the P L A T O marks to the University in the case of abandonment of use by CDC. The Vice President for Administration has recommended acceptance of the offer from CDC to acquire an assignment of the P L A T O marks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office under certificate number 1,022,888, dated October 14, 1975, and certificate number 1,023,171, dated October 21, 1975, and a paid up nonexclusive license of the unregistered trademark T U T O R , all for the sum of $125,000, payable as indicated. It is also recommended that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute the necessary documents and agreements, including termination of the Trademark License Agreement dated March 12, 1976, between CDC and the University, to implement the foregoing. The Vice President for Administration also has recommended that from the proceeds received from CDC for the exclusive license granted a total sum of $31,250 be paid to the developers of the names P L A T O and T U T O R : Professor Donald L. Bitzer, Director of the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory, and Paul J. Tenczar, Senior Specialist in Automated Education in the Computerbased Education Research Laboratory. I t is further recommended that the Comptroller and the Secretary be autho-