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1st November 2012 Andrew Wilson Technology Transfer Project Manager Research, Business and Innovation
Most students believe that the way they are taught about intellectual property (IP) does not equip them for their future careers.
Universities and colleges focus too much on the negative aspects of plagiarism and not enough on the benefits of IP rights, such as patents and registered designs.
Gowers review of IP
For many citizens, Intellectual Property (IP) is an obscure and distant domain its laws shrouded in jargon and technical mystery, it applications relevant only to a specialist audience. And yet IP is everywhere. Even a simple coffee jar relies on a range on IP rights from patents to copyright, designs to trade marks.
Importance of IP
Ideas are expensive to produce and cheap to copy (blockbuster films 100M, blockbuster drugs B) Product development, marketing and sales is an expensive and time consuming process up to 13 years to get drug to market Intellectual Property Right framework is in place to encourage innovation in all fields of arts and science (and investment in R&D by companies) and to make innovations publicly available to that others can build up them.
Intellectual Property Rights give legal recognition to the ownership of intellectual property.
IP = research outputs
What it protects
How things work. New ideas capable of being made or used and involving a non-obvious inventive step. Secret information, formulae, ideas, results and expertise.
Term
20
Copyright
Design rights (registered and unregistered) Trade marks (registered or unregistered) Plant breeders rights Database rights
Indefinite (unless disclosed). NDAs often have terms Written work, films, videos, typographical 70 years from arrangements, including computer software, music, death of art, drawing and data. creator, usually How things look. Form and appearance of objects 15/25 (including semiconductor topographies). Distinguishing symbols. Product brand names, company logos etc. New plant varieties. Databases and collections of information. Indefinite
25-30 15
UWEs IP Policy
http://rbi.uwe.ac.uk/Internet/contracts/default.asp
Student IPR
Undergraduate and students on taught courses generally student owned (unless otherwise agreed eg 3rd party funding or use of UWE background IPR) Postgraduate UWE claims ownership of IPR
Student IPR
May be asked to sign Assignment of IPR agreement If IP of future value or required due to 3rd party terms If so this agreement will be explained in detail before you are asked to sign Treated as member of staff for revenue sharing Professional support for commercialisation Marketing Patent/legal costs
Further information
UK Intellectual Property Office (general IP information and searching) - www.ipo.gov.uk
www.own-it.org Own-it practical advice, creative focus Supervisor