Re: Student Patent Policy at Caltech and UC

Kragen Sitaker (kragen@pobox.com)
Tue, 12 Jan 1999 17:40:05 -0500 (EST)


On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Joachim Feise wrote:
> The copyright policy of UC says different:
> http://www.ucop.edu/ucophome/uwnews/copyr.html
>
> C. Student Work
>
> A student work is a work produced by a registered student without the use of
> University funds (other than Student Financial Aid), that is produced outside
> any University employment, and is not a sponsored, contracted facilities, or
> commissioned work.
>
> Ownership of copyrights to student works shall reside with the originator.

What are sponsored works, contracted facilities works, and commissioned
works? And what does UC's policy say about patents?

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