Protecting and Selling your Ideas - Campus Forums (Week of 29th July 2013)

UWS Innovation have re-named the University’s Invention Disclosure Form to the Intellectual Property Disclosure Form, why?

Most people think of Intellectual Property as inventions which tend to be tangible widgets and that widgets are the only things that can be patented and commercialised.

A commercially viable product/service that is beneficial to the community may not just be a widget. Therefore we thought to ensure Researchers are clear on what types of things may have commercial potential, we would update our disclosure form to reflect that any form of Intellectual Property is important.

Patentability should also not be the first question that is considered! The first consideration should be “does this have commercial potential and is there a community need”? Secondary to this, “is it possible (and commercially wise) to formally register the Intellectual Property by way of patent, trade mark, design etc.”? Copyright deals, i.e. without requiring formal IP registration can also be made. Often a deal is a combination of various types of Intellectual Property, not just one thing, therefore the University and UWS Innovation is not only interested in ‘stereotypical inventions’.

Intellectual Property can be a range of things such as:
• software code incorporated into a package for end users
• industrial designs
• manuals and copyright material
• inventions of widgets, new compositions and methods

We have recently launched a simple one page Intellectual Property Disclosure Form as an online version for ease of use https://www.uws.edu.au/innovation/home/ip_management_and_investment/inventors/intellectual_property_disclosure_form

We invite you to attend a session next week where you can learn more about this change and ask the Innovation team any questions you may have.

Campus: Campbelltown
Date: Monday 29 July
Time: 11:30am-12:30pm
Room: 22.2.04 (Conference 05)

Campus: Hawkesbury
Date: Wednesday 31 July
Time: 10:00am – 11:00am
Room: L5.G.01-02

Campus: Kingswood
Date: Wednesday 31 July
Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm
Room: P.1.51

Campus: Bankstown
Date: Thursday 1 August
Time: 9:30am – 10:30am
Room: 01.1.117 (Conference room)

Campus: Parramatta
Date: Thursday 1 August
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Room: EB.3.33

UWS Laboratory Note Books

To all UWS Researcher’s and HDR Students.

We all know how important record keeping is when it comes to your research, as such the University of Western Sydney has produced its very own Laboratory Note Books.

These state of the art lab books provide you with everything you need for recording your experiments, including witnessing.

A Laboratory Notebook is a primary record of research and used to document hypotheses, experiments and interpretation of results. The “lab book” serves as an organisational tool and memory aid.  Importantly, the lab book has a role in protecting any intellectual property that comes from the research.
The University strongly recommends that all researchers and HDR students use these fully-bound, legally compliant Laboratory Notebooks as they provide a permanent record of research for the University.  A well-kept and correctly documented lab book is vital for proving that you conducted the research.  It can also be invaluable if you have to prove that you were an inventor on a patent application.

The attractive, fully-bound and legally compliant UWS Laboratory Notebooks are available in boxes of 10 for $90.00 a box.

School and Research Centre offices are able to order Notebooks from UWS Print Services for distribution to researchers. If you are a researcher, please talk to your School or Centre office to organise book orders.

If you have any questions, please contact UWS Innovation at IP@uws.edu.au or call Laura Robinson on ext 9800.