Introduction and useful links

This Course was ran by Intellectual Property Office.

• Types of IP: unregistered: copyright, unregistered trademarks, trade secretes and “know how”.

• Universities are seeing IP licensing as new funding stream

• Research Impact agenda imposes demands on the uni to demonstrate "impact"

• Information for researches cracking ideas site

• Part of vitae development framework

• KEF Knowledge Exchange Framework

• Lambert toolkit

• University of Leeds Policy

Copyright - notes

• unregistered
• Example: PhD Thesis - first author owns
• third party copyright. Non owner produced content e.g. photographs etc. Requires permission to publish online.
• Creative Commons to make sure attribution is made
• 70 years after death

Patents

• 20 years
• Physical things
• unlikely to be used in CEMAC

Leeds Uni

• James Kitson - commercialisation at Leeds
• REF 2021 demonstrating impacts - mentions software
• ipr policy
• For all staff uni owns the IP - you may own up to 40% if went off and made a business though.
• For Joint work staff and students - uni owns - even just discussions with PhD supervisors
• No clear information on Open Source Software still.