Patents IV Clause Samples

Patents IV i. The employer waives, disclaims and abandons, any interest in or claim to, any invention, improvement, design or development made by a member without any use of the employer's funds, services, facilities, support and/or technical personnel. Demonstration of this lies with the employer. Members are required to give the employer immediate notice of any patent application made by them. Such inventions and patents arising therefrom shall be the sole property of the member who is the inventor. ii. The member and the employer shall each hold fifty per cent (50%) of any right, title and interest to any invention, improvement in design or development made by a member with the use, in whole or in part, of the employer's funds, services, facilities, support and/or technical personnel. The use of the normal academic environment (e.g. Library or Computer Centre) shall not be considered use of the employer's services or facilities. Disputes as to what constitutes the normal academic environment shall be referred to the Patents and Copyrights Committee for adjudication. No member shall make any patent application in respect of any such invention, improvement, design or development except in accordance with this Article. (b) IV.7.1(a) shall not apply to any invention, improvement, design or development resulting from work financed by a grant or contract where the granting or contracting body, as a condition of the grant or contract, requires that any patent rights be assigned to it.