Introduction and useful links
This Course was ran by Intellectual Property Office.
Types of IP: unregistered: copyright, unregistered trademarks, trade secretes and “know how”.
Universities are seeing IP licensing as new funding stream
Research Impact agenda imposes demands on the uni to demonstrate “impact”
Information for researches cracking ideas site
Part of vitae development framework
Copyright - notes
unregistered
Example: PhD Thesis - first author owns
third party copyright. Non owner produced content e.g. photographs etc. Requires permission to publish online.
Creative Commons to make sure attribution is made
70 years after death
Patents
20 years
Physical things
unlikely to be used in CEMAC
Leeds Uni
James Kitson - commercialisation at Leeds
REF 2021 demonstrating impacts - mentions software
For all staff uni owns the IP - you may own up to 40% if went off and made a business though.
For Joint work staff and students - uni owns - even just discussions with PhD supervisors
No clear information on Open Source Software still.