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1074 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [December 17
the ownership of copyrights, or of inventions or discoveries made by employees
of the University entirely outside of their duties with the University
and without the use of University facilities, resources, or financial support.
PROCEDURE ON PATENT MATTERS
Sec. 18. (a) A disclosure of any invention or discovery made by an
employee of the University, or resulting from research carried on under the
direction of an employee, in which the University may have an interest shall
be submitted promptly by such discoverer to his supervisor or administrative
officer. Such officer shall append thereto a statement setting forth his opinion
concerning the scientific, technical, and economic merit of such discovery,
the likelihood and desirability of obtaining a patent, and an estimate of the
commercial possibilities of such a patent, and transmit such disclosure and
opinion to the University Patent Committee.
(b) The Patent Committee shall review related data and information and
make recommendations concerning financial terms and problems concerned
with the development and administration of such inventions and discoveries,
and patents secured thereon. The Committee shall make recommendations to
the President, with the concurrence of the Chairman of the University Research
Board, concerning the disposition and the terms of administration of
such inventions and discoveries. If he concurs, the President shall transmit
such recommendations to the Board of Trustees for final action.
(c) The determination as to what portion of net income shall be paid
to the inventor or discoverer, after the payment of costs of securing a patent
and of development and administration, from a patent held by the University
or transferred by it to the University of Illinois Foundation shall be studied
by the University Patent Committee, which shall make a recommendation
to the President. In most cases, the University contribution in use of facilities
and resources will be significant and, therefore, the inventor will have little
real claim to compensation over his regular University salary. In such cases,
the University Patent Committee shall recommend that the proportion of net
income assigned to the inventor should fall in the range of 10 to 15 per cent
of net income. In unusual cases, in which the University contribution is
obviously less, this percentage allocation to the inventor may go to 25 per cent
and, in rare cases, the rate may be higher.
(d) No final decision shall be reached as to where title to a patent shall
vest, nor shall there be transferred to any individual or agency the rights
(including a share in the net income) in an invention or discovery in which
the University has an interest, without the approval of the Board of Trustees.
COPYRIGHTS
Sec. 19. (a) The right to copyright a work or to assign this right to a
publisher normally belongs to the author of the work. However, when the
author is specifically commissioned by the University or one of its departments
to prepare a manuscript or report, the manuscript and all rights to it shall
belong to the University.
(b) Research and service pamphlets and bulletins may or may not be
copyrighted, at the discretion of the department issuing the work.
(c) Books published by the University Press are copyrighted as provided
in Section 10.