For Inventors

Update for Inventors: New streamlined invention processing system (4/6/2012)

As you may know, one of the important provisions of the new patent law which just passed is that the U.S. is now going to a first-to-file, rather than the traditional first-to-invent, patent system.  Therefore, KSU is going to respond with a streamlined invention processing system (within the context of current university policy) to enable patent filings to take place more expediently, as follows:

Inventions submitted to the Office of Corporate Engagement and Commercialization will be reviewed immediately, and provisional patent applications on selected inventions will be made quickly.  Patent Board meetings will be held biannually in September and March, during which 1) inventions not previously filed will be presented by inventors and reviewed, and 2) inventions previously filed as provisional applications which are coming up for a utility patent application decision will be reviewed.  Patent application filings will be made subsequently, as appropriate.

Grant McGimpsey
Vice President for Research
Chair, KSU Patent Board

Forms and Templates

Invention Disclosure Form (IDF) and Other Agreement Forms (Samples):

• Invention Disclosure Form
  
• Sponsored Research Agreement templates
• Non-Disclosure (Confidentiality) Agreements - NDA's
• Material Transfer Agreements - MTA's
• Visiting Industrial Scientist Agreements 
• Visiting Academic Scientist Agreements

Policies

The following links take you to University-wide or Office of Corporate Engagement and Commercialization policies. Please contact us directly with questions.

• Faculty Participation in Companies Commercializing KSU research (University Policy) 3342-3-08
• Staff Participation in Companies Commercializing Their Institutional Research 3342-3-08.1
• Patents (University Policy) 3342-5-09
• Patents (Administrative Policy) 3342-5-09.1
• Copyright (University Policy) 3342-5-10
• University Sponsored Educational Materials 3342-5-11
• Copyright (Administrative Policy) 3342-5-10.1
• Outside Enterprises (University Policy) 3342-6-24
• Conflict of Interest (University Policy) 3342-6-23
• Distribution of Royalty Income
• Patent Licensing Policies
• Other Kent State University Policies

Resources

• Association of University Technology Managers
• The Bayh-Dole Act
• Copyright Information
• Liquid Crystal Institute (LCI)
• Northeast Ohio Software Association (NEOSA)
• Ohio Department of Development
• United States Patent Office
• For an inventors guidebook, from the Office of Corporate Engagement and Commercialization, email Greg Wilson

Kent State University Patent Board

Faculty	Department
Damron, Derek	Professor, Biological Sciences
Yang, Deng-Ke	Professor, Chemical Physics, LCI
Sprunt, Samuel	Professor, Physics
Songping Huang	Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Administrative Ex Officio	Department
Hawke, Constance	Associate University Counsel
McGimpsey, Grant	Vice President for Research