Common use of INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND PATENT RIGHTS Clause in Contracts

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND PATENT RIGHTS. If the candidate is the only author of the PhD thesis, then he/she holds the sole intellectual property rights to the work. If the PhD thesis contains a collection of papers, the candidate holds the sole intellectual property rights to those parts which are the result of his/her independent creative work. Papers written by more than one author where it is impossible to ascertain the individual contributions will be deemed co-authored. For such work, the co-authors jointly hold the intellectual property rights to the work. If the candidate is employed by NTNU and during the course of his/her doctoral education makes a patentable invention, the candidate is to notify NTNU c/o TTO5 in writing without due delay in accordance with the Act Respecting the Right to Employees' Inventions of 17 April 1970 Section 5. If the invention is the result of joint work with supervisor(s) who are employed by NTNU, both the candidate and the supervisor(s) are obliged to notify NTNU in writing without due delay. The candidate and the supervisor(s) are to make a joint decision about their respective shares in the patentable invention.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND PATENT RIGHTS. If the candidate is the only author of the PhD doctoral thesis, then he/she holds the sole intellectual property rights to the work. If the PhD doctoral thesis contains consists of a collection of paperspapers and a summary, the candidate holds the sole intellectual property rights to those parts which are the result of his/her independent creative work. Papers written by more than one author person where it is impossible to ascertain the individual contributions contributions, will be deemed co-authored. For such workpapers, the co-authors jointly hold the intellectual property rights to the work. If the candidate is employed by NTNU and during the course of his/her doctoral education the thesis work makes a patentable invention, the candidate is to notify NTNU c/o TTO5 in writing without due delay in accordance with the Act Respecting the Right to Employees' Inventions of 17 April 1970 Section § 5. If the invention is the result of joint work with the supervisor(s) ), who is/are employed emplyed by NTNU, both the candidate and the supervisor(s) are obliged to notify NTNU in writing without due delay. The candidate and the supervisor(s) are to make a joint decision about jointly deteemine what their respective shares in the patentable inventioninvention are.