[Postdocs-visitors] FW: New Form “Agreement on Ownership of Intellectual Property"

All,

I have not yet received the attached/signed form from all researchers. If you are on, or plan to submit, grants…you must sign and submit this form.

Please do so asap and drop it off to me. I will be sending them along appropriately. If you have already forwarded it along, kindly let me know.

Thank you,

Shannon

Shannon R. Landis, MEd

Department Manager

Physics & Astronomy

Tufts University

212 College Ave.

Medford, MA 02155

(617) 627-5360

(617) 627-3878 fax

Shannon Landis Tufts edu

From: Chen, Jessica [mailto:Jessica Chen tufts edu]
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 12:06 PM
To: medfordcampusfundingopportunities elist tufts edu
Subject: New Form “Agreement on Ownership of Intellectual Property"

Dear Faculty and Staff,

This message alerts you to the new form, “Agreement on Ownership of Intellectual Property”, now required to be signed by all faculty and staff. This new requirement is in effect immediately.

Background: The Supreme Court’s recent decision on Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. held that intellectual property rights arising from federally funded research do not automatically vest with the university receiving such funds. To protect Tufts’ interest in innovations created at the university, we are now requiring that members of the Tufts community – faculty, post-docs, graduate students, and staff – sign an agreement which affirmatively assigns to Tufts all rights in intellectual property created in whole or in part through use of university funding or other resources. Please consult http://viceprovost.tufts.edu/?pid=6&c=6 for further information on Tufts policy of rights and responsibilities with respect to intellectual property.

Process: The Agreement must be signed by each researcher at Tufts and will be binding for the duration of the researcher’s Tufts appointment. The Office of Research Administration (ORA) will confirm whether there is a signed form on file for each investigator at the time they submit an application for funding. Signed forms will be retained by the Office of Technology Licensing & Industry Collaboration (OTL&IC) and can be sent there directly by the investigator or by ORA, if requested/ at time of proposal submission. Investigators may access the “Agreement on Ownership of Intellectual Property” at http://researchadmin.tufts.edu/?pid=18&c=12 under University-wide forms.

Human Resources will require new employees and post-doctoral fellows to sign this Agreement at the time they are hired. Some post-doctoral fellows will be required to sign the Agreement by their deans or department heads.

Questions about the Agreement should be addressed to OTL&IC (techtransfer.tufts.edu). Questions about the process for signing the form should be addressed to the Associate Director of Research Administration responsible for processing your proposal submissions.

Sincerely,

Nina Green, Director, Office of Technology Licensing & Industry Collaboration

Christine Woodroffe, Senior Associate Director, Research Administration (Medford)

Zoya Hamilton, Senior Associate Director, Research Administration (Boston/Grafton)