Intellectual property disclosure service

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Resource Type

Properties

1. Resource Description

   The Tech Transfer Office reviews invention disclosures and provides the following intellectual property services to inventors at Morehouse School of Medicine: * determine whether the disclosure represents intellectual property that is a trade secret, or whether it is an invention that would require patent protection * ascertain whether the invention disclosure can be adequately evaluated by the intellectual property committee or whether to defer evaluation to an external intellectual property management agency * institute action to protect the disclosed invention as intellectual property of Morehouse School of Medicine * transfer intellectual property rights of the described disclosure to the research sponsor, if such transfer is required by the research agreement * waive ownership of the intellectual property rights regarding the disclosed technology in favor of the inventor and release the inventor from further responsibility to the university with respect to the technology that was disclosed * request additional pertinent information needed for the committee to evaluate the disclosure. In such circumstances, the committee shall deem the disclosure "not adequate" and the calculation of the time frames shall not begin until the requested information is received by the committee"

2. Service Provided by

   Office of Technology Transfer, Morehouse School of Medicine

3. Website(s)

   http://www.msm.edu/commercialization/commercialization_propertyCommittee.aspx

4. ERO_0001053

   Yes