Intellectual Property & Technology Transfer Policy
The policy is designed to encourage the development of inventions and other intellectual creations for the best interest of the public, the creator, and the research sponsor, if any. This policy will permit the timely protection and disclosure of such intellectual property whether by development and commercialization after securing available protection for the creation, by publication, or both. The policy is further intended to protect the respective interests of all concerned by ensuring that the benefits of such property accrue to the public, to the inventor, to the university, and to sponsors of specific research in varying degrees of protection, monetary return and recognition, as circumstances justify or require.