Intellectual Property Policy Objectives

The basic objectives of the University's policies regarding intellectual property are to:

1. Encourage research and scholarship as creative academic endeavors, while recognizing that commercially viable inventions may result from such endeavors;
2. Encourage inventors and authors to report discoveries with patent or computer software copyright potential and to assist them, while at the same time safeguarding the interests of all concerned parties;
3. Ensure that inventions and computer software developed in the course of University research are made available to the public under conditions that promote their commercialization