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Who Gets Intellectual Property Rights? Everyone
Collaboration ain't always easy. Sometimes it takes many months, occasionally more than a year, for IT vendors and university researchers to agree on who owns the intellectual property of industry-funded IT research at some of America's top schools. Such delays have prompted some vendors to direct some of their university-bound R&D funding to universities overseas, institutions less fussy about IP rights. Those concerns are voiced in a video podcast.Collaboration ain't always easy.
Sometimes it takes many months, occasionally more than a year, for IT vendors and university researchers to agree on who owns the intellectual property of industry-funded IT research at some of America's top schools. Such delays have prompted some vendors to direct some of their university-bound R&D funding to universities overseas, institutions less fussy about IP rights. Those concerns are voiced in a video podcast.Earlier this week (see story "U.S. Universities Loosen Grip On Tech Rights To Keep Vendor Grants From Going Overseas"), four tech vendors (Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Intel) and seven research universities (Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Institute of Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Stanford, University of California, University of Illinois, and University of Texas) agreed to a set of principles to guide collaborative IT research funded by the industry and conducted by university researchers. Simply, the knowledge generated would be made available to all.
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