Clients include General Electric, Dow AgroSciences, Lucent Technologies, Mayo Medical Ventures, and many technology start-ups and commercialization efforts. RTMO Here is a list of Web Resources maintained by the University's Patent Office. A patent is a license by the government that permits its owner to exclude members of the public from making, using, or selling the claimed invention. When an invention is publicly disclosed , inventors have one year to file a patent. Public disclosure means that the invention was seen in a public setting or similarly accessible to the public.
Laboratory notebooks are VERY important.
Priority goes to the first to invent, not the first to file. A presentation by Joe Barich on Patent Engineering and intellectual property is available for your perusal. This presentation does not create and attorney-client relationship. This presentation was accurate as of the date it was originally given, but may become inaccurate due to changes in the underlying legal framework. A copyright covers only the expression of a work and does not do anything to stop people from approaching clever ideas that happened to be embodied in that work.