UC Santa Barbara                                      Policy 1620
   Policies                                              
   Issuing Unit:  Academic Affairs                       Date: January 1, 1986
   
   
   
   
                   PATENT AGREEMENT REQUIREMENTS
                       FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS
   
   I.   REFERENCES:
        
        A.   President Saxon's memorandum to Chancellors and Laboratory
             Directors, Patent Agreement Requirements--Graduate Students,
             dated January 14, 1976.
        
   II.  POLICY:
   
        Graduate students who are engaged in extramurally funded research
        projects must sign the University's Patent Agreement in accordance
        with the University's contractual obligations to sponsors of
        research. To not obtain signed Patent Agreements from persons
        connected with a research project is a breach of the research
        contract or grant. (Where the students happen to be employees, they
        presumably will have already signed the Patent Agreement; it is not
        necessary to obtain another signed agreement in those cases.)
        
        In certain circumstances, graduate students may be actually employed
        in private industry and their education subsidized by their
        employers. In these circumstances, the students often retain their
        employee status with their industrial employers and also remain
        bound by their employers' patent agreements. In no circumstances
        should such graduate students be permitted to participate in
        research projects funded by outside sources that carry patent
        obligations unless those students have signed the University's
        Patent Agreement and unless those students have assured their
        respective Provosts/Deans or department heads that they have no
        overriding patent obligations to an outside employer that would
        preclude the student and the University from meeting their
        respective contractual requirements to a sponsor of research.
   

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