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What should an institutional policy touch on?
How to decide these issues? How to implement?
IP that is included Who is covered Ownership of IP Disclosures Dispute resolution Protection of certain
communities/Conflicts Responsibility for Management Splitting the money
Traditional division between Copyrights and Patents
Ignoring of Trade-marks Good arguments to be made now that
all IP should be brought into a policy Who decides when IP will be
commercialized? (Researcher, funder, administration?)
Researchers Students Staff members How about visitors? Members of the local community
allowed to use facilities? How to reconcile issues over
collaborating partners?
Clear statement that IP is owned by X [Inventors; Funding Organization; Institution?]› Choice should be based on: who is best
capable of doing the work? Obligations to sign patent documents
› Need for institutional and individual signatures Consider ‘relief valve’ that lets
researchers get ownership back
Open source? Academic publications Open innovation
Most important special case› transfer of ownership only when paid “full
economic costs”› Meaning of FEC
Publication limits Other issues related to working with
industry
Can’t manage what you don’t know Initial information gathering Gather information relevant
to initial valuation Need to balance information
required and complexity to complete
Initiates management Can be used to pass information to:
› Internal stakeholders (academic management)
› External stakeholders When is something truly a disclosure?
Who is an Inventor?› Patent attorneys can answer
to a point Useful to have some type of
internal committee to arbitrate disputes
Can also help with revenue splits
Inherent conflicts between supervisors and students
How to protect students? Conflict between granting agency and
host institutions Use of an intermediate
authority Conflicts between
inventors and institutions
They say: “It’s not the money, it’s the principle”
They mean: “It’s the money!” How to determine? Institutional portion generally at least
50% after ‘costs’ What do costs mean? Include overhead, time etc? or just
patents and outside personnel?
Does TT get a portion of revenues automatically?
What other functions will they be given
How to fund over ‘dry spells’?
Communication plan Also needs to see almost immediate
services being available Practices (next section) are a critical
piece of the puzzle
