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Forms

INVENTION DISCLOSURE FORM (IDF)
Available in Word format.

OTHER AGREEMENTS:
To view forms linked on this site, you must have Adobe Reader (available for free from Adobe on web)

Sponsored Research Agreement templates - sample available here

Non-Disclosure (Confidentiality) Agreements - NDA's - sample available here

Material Transfer Agreements - MTA's - sample here

Visiting Industrial Scientist Agreements (VISA's) and
Visiting Academic Scientist Agreements (VASA's)
- samples available here

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Policies

The following links take you to University-wide or OTTED 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
• Dos and Don'ts for e-Lab Notebooks (Fish & Richardson P.C.)
• Dos and Don'ts for Keeping Lab Notebooks (Fish & Richardson P.C.)
• Liquid Crystal Institute (LCI)
• Northeast Ohio Software Association (NEOSA)
• OhioTechNet
• Ohio Department of Development
• OTTED Commercialization Process
• Patent Law You Can Use - For Information of the Topics Below, Contact the
  Office of Technology Transfer for an "Inventor's Guide to Patents and Patenting"
  • What is a Patent?
  • Provisional Patent Applications
  • Inventorship
  • Maintaining Laboratory Notebooks
  • Patentability Searching
  • Patent Application Filing Deadlines and Bars to Patentability (incl. timing of publications)
  • Continuation Patent Applications
  • Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)
  • Foreign Patent Applications
  • Changes in U.S. Patent Law
  • Types of Intellectual Property
  • Rule 56 - Duty of Candor and Good Faith
  • Reading a Patent - Part I - The Cover Page
  • Reading a Patent - Part II - The Description and the Claims
  • Patents vs. Trade Secrets
• University Partnership Directory
• United States Patent Office

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Kent State University Patent Board

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