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.

UWS Intellectual Property Evaluation Panel

Some of the University of Western Sydney’s most Innovative thinkers presented at this year’s first IP Evaluation Panel, which was held on the 24^th May with great success. These talented researchers were able to present their ideas to a well rounded panel of experts in the hopes of securing protection and/or funding for their research. The panel assesses the commercial potential of ground-breaking research coming out of the University, with the aim of assisting to bridge the gap progressing research from “ideas” to “reality”.

We were fortunate to again have the expertise of UWS academics and industry to evaluate our research potential.  The diverse backgrounds of the panelists allowed for comprehensive understanding, analysis and recommendations. We would like to thank our generous panel members of the day Rachel Hooke (FB Rice), Ben Wright (ATP Innovations Pty Ltd), David Bull (BCS International), Prof Athula Ginige (School of Computing Engineering and Mathematics), Assoc Prof Dennis Chang (School of Science and Health), Assoc Prof Terry Sloan (UWS School of Business), Kezia Sullivan (UWS Research Services) Fiona Montebello (UWS Lawyer), Peter Malecki (UWS Commercial Lawyer), Prof Andrew Cheetham (Interim Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research)) and Dr Kathryn Sunn (UWSI Chair).

The MARCs Institute for behavioral, neurological and computational research saw a wealth of extremely innovating ideas presented at the IP Panel, the quality of which were exceptional. We are please to say that every project that was presented at this panel not only represented the first-rate research happening at the MARCs Institute but were so excellent they all won the support of the University to commercialise their ideas.

This blog will keep you up to date with progress of the inventions as they continue along the exciting path to commercialisation.

If you are interested in licensing or development opportunities with UWS inventions please refer to our web site: UWS Innovation  or contact us on ip@uws.edu.au.

Our next IP Evaluation Panel will be held on Friday 13^th of September 2013. 

UWS Research in the News

Geological rock sample from the Mt. Weld showing association of apatite and lateritic phases in supergene geology.

Image is a pseudo colour map. Blue is apatite, Green is manganese and red is lateritic/iron oxide. SEM X-ray map full spectrum taken at 512x 512, 20 kV, 200 msec/point and collected by Richard Wuhrer.

Congratulations go to Dr. Jason Reynolds and Peter Fisher for their X-Ray Map of geological research that has been published on the front cover of the AUSTRALIAN MICROCSOPY & MICROANAYLYSIS NEWSLETTER (AMMS Newsletter).

This image was taken using a Joel 840 SEM with a Moran Microanalysis system. This X-Ray Mapping technology, along with many other analytical techniques is available through the University of Western Sydney’s Advanced Characterisation Materials Facility (AMCF).

The University of Western Sydney has a vast array of state of the art scientific equipment that is available for students, staff and industry. For more information please visit our instrumentation web page http://www.uws.edu.au/innovation/home/equipment_booking/instrumentation

or contact UWS Innovation’s Project Officer:

Victoria Hirst

v.hirst@uws.edu.au

(02) 9685 9742

PhD Competition

If you are doing a PhD and are interested in how to pitch your research to business, this competition will give you valuable practice, insights and training.

If you would like the opportunity to mix with leaders in innovation and discuss your research with them go to the website www.amplifyfestival.com.au for more information.

Applications for this competition close on the 22nd April 2013. 

If you have any questions concerning Intellectual Property or Commercialisation of your research please refer to the UWS Innovation website http://www.uws.edu.au/innovate or contact us on ip@uws.edu.au