IP Rights Management Team: responsibilities
The IP Rights Management Team are responsible for a total of eight lines of work, each concerning an aspect of the appropriate handling of the University's intellectual property.
- IP Rights (Isis) - Establishing where IP rights reside and negotiating IP acquisitions and clearances leading to the transfer of rights to Isis Innovation for commercialisation.
- IP Rights (non-Isis) - Establishing, on occasion, where IP rights reside and negotiating IP acquisitions and clearances leading to commercialisation by parties other than Isis.
- Royalty Distribution - Putting in place revenue sharing arrangements and assisting Finance with confirming non-standard revenue sharing arrangements.
- Residual Rights - Identifying any obligations to other parties concerning residual IP rights, offering such rights as necessary, prior to Isis offering rights back to the researchers.
- Confidentiality Agreements - Processing, recording and signing confidentiality agreements on behalf of the University to support Isis marketing.
- Pre-consultancy Reports - Providing information on an
academic's contractual and sponsorship arrangements to Isis.
- Material Sales Clearances - Identifying obligations and seeking clearances for Isis to license or sell materials.
- IP queries - Dealing with a variety of queries on the University IP Statutes and Regulations or on IP generally from across the University.