Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1978 [PAGE 414]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILUNOIS

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lor administration and the chancellors of the Chicago Circle and'Medical Center campuses, recommends employment of Arthur Andersen & Co., Chicago;! to -study and analyze management alternatives for the organization of the-Physical Plant at Chicago. The study will include alternative organization models with economic and performance evaluation. The consultant's fee is to be based.upon standard rates for principals and technical personnel plus expenses authorized' by the University and will not exceed $45,000. ' Funds are available in the budget of the vice president for-administration*. • T h e student advisory vote w a s : Aye, M i s s Cordon, M r . Oyerstreet, Miss W i n t e r ; n o , n o n e . O n m o t i o n of M r . Velasquez, this r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a p p r o v e d by t h e following v o t e : A y e , Mr. For9yth, M r . H a l m ; M r . H o w a r d , ' M r . L e n z , M r . Livingston, Mr. N e a l , M r s . R a d e r , M r s . S h e p h e r d ; M r . V e l a s q u e z ; n o , n o n e ; absent, G o v e r n o r T h o m p s o n . '

Recommendations of the University Parent Committee

(32) The University Patent Committee submits the following recommendations relating to discoveries or' inventions by members of the staff. I concur in these recommendations. The Committee on Patents of the Board of Trustees has examined background material related to these inventions and recommends approval. 1. First Visible Wavelength Direct Nuclear Pumped Laser—>M. Alfred Akennan, research assistant in nuclear engineering, Urbana, George H. Miley, .professor of nuclear engineering, Urbana, and David A. McArthur, Sahdia Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, inventors; sponsored by the Energy Research and Development Administration. University Patents, Inc., wishes to seek basic patent protection of this idea. The University Patent Committee recommends that die rights of the University be transferred to the University of Illinois Foundation, subject to the rights of the sponsor, and that 15 percent of the net income from this idea received by the University of Illinois Foundation, after payment of any costs and expenses of securing a patent and of development and administration, be distributed to die inventors, such distribution to be allocated equally among them in accordance with their signed agreement. 2. Means for Producing Hollow Shells of Various Materials and Means for Producing Hollow Shells of Cryogenic and Other Materials — Charles D. Hendricks, Jr., professor of electrical engineering, Urbana, inventor. University Patents, Inc., wishes to seek basic patent protection on these ideas. The University Patent Committee recommends that the rights of die University be transferred to die University of Illinois Foundation and that 15 percent of the net income from these ideas received by the University of Illinois Foundation, after payment of any costs and expenses of securing a patent and of development and administration, be distributed to the inventor. 3. Reduction of Food Absorption — Angel S. Arambulo, professor of manufacturing pharmacy, Medical Center, Sarfaraz Niazi, assistant professor of pharmacy, Medical Center, and Musarrat Hussain, graduate student in pharmacy,. Medical Center, inventors. University Patents, Inc., reported that this idea was nonpatentable because of an April 1976 publication. The University Patent Committee recommends that the rights of the University be released to the inventors. 4. 'Methods for Improving the Accuracy of Oxygen Potential Measurements —*•