If You Have a Licensing Arrangement With the Company Through the Stanford Office of Technology Licensing
- As a University employee title to all potentially patentable inventions conceived, or first reduced to practice, in whole or in part, by you in the course of your University responsibilities, or with more than incidental use of University resources, must be assigned to the University. http://www.stanford.edu/dept/DoR/rph/Chpt5.html
- The University must avoid conflicts of interest in licensing technology to a company in which the inventor has a financial interest, thus it is in everyone's best interest if the inventor maintains a cordial and willing attitude in working with whatever company ends up licensing the technology or discovery. Faculty may help the Office of Technology Licensing (OTL) to evaluate potential licensees, but the selection of the licensee rests with OTL.
- New developments relating to this intellectual property must also be fairly licensed and you must not pipeline or funnel intellectual property to a company in which you have a financial or founding interest.
- Is the company licensing your technology sponsoring further research in the area of the intellectual property?
- Do you have PHS or NSF funds for research related to this intellectual property? The results of this research or creations or discoveries arising from this research must not be pipelined or funneled to the company that has a license.
- You must disclose this relationship with the company in publications and public discussions of any of your research that is sponsored by the company or related to the company.
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