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PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT -- Students --Participation Agreement • October 11th, 2007
The purpose of this Participation Agreement is to assure graduate students that their interests in intellectual property developed in whole or in part by them will be protected by the University. The University’s policy on intellectual property has only a minor impact on your freedom to publish your work. If you and your co-inventors wish to protect a piece of intellectual property, it may be necessary to delay publication briefly, for example, for the purpose of filing a patent. However, if you prefer not to protect the intellectual property in question you are under no obligation to do so and may publish your results as you see fit. Of course, the University encourages all its employees to disclose and protect intellectual property, since this will better enable the University to carry out its land-grant mission and to benefit the public interest. Indeed, the University wants to be as helpful as possible in providing service and advice to inventors who wish to see their intellectual
