For Faculty, Staff, and Students

OIPC works with and for YOU!

1. Disclose your innovation - tell us what you've been working on. This will automatically enter you into the annual IDEA Awards.
2. OIPC and the Intellectual Property Advisory Committee will review your innovation to determine whether it can be protected and how best to commercialize it.  If the University chooses not to pursue commercialization, then ownership of the technology will revert to you.
3. We'll work to protect your innovation through a patent, copyright, trademark, or trade secret application.
4. We'll work to commercialize your innovation by licensing to an existing company or to a new startup company you could be involved with.
5. Royalties - get your share of proceeds from the commercialization of your innovation; the first $10,000 is yours then the net revenue is split 50/50 with the University thereafter.

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YOUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

Policies regarding UAF's intellectual property can be found in your Collective Bargaining Agreement which are available online at UA's Labor and Employee Relations webpage.

The Board of Regents Policies and Regulations Chapter 10.07.050. Inventions, Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks and Other Intellectual Properties outlines how and why OIPC and UAF encourage and support innovation and creativity by employees and students. 

For faculty, the University Policies and Procedure Faculty Blue Book outlines how inventions and other creative works demonstrate evidence of excellence in Research, Scholarly and Creative Activity.

For more information please contact us!

 

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JOIN CENTER ICE INNOVATION HUB

The Center ICE Innovation Hub provides a pathway for innovation, commercialization, and entrepreneurship. Offering top-notch services, space, and programming, the mission of Center ICE is to help faculty and students commercialize their intellectual property, create spin-off companies, and get their products into the right hands, where they can change the world. For more information, visit the Alaska Center ICE website.

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ALASKA CENTER ICE COMMUNITY CHALLENGE

Alaskan companies, startups, nonprofit organizations, public agencies and UA faculty and students are invited to share with students your challenge or problem that you think would be an educational student project, valuable to have completed and help share the resources of the university across the state. View this link to learn more.

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THE ANNUAL INVENTION COMPETITION: IDEAs AWARDS

When submitting a disclosure, your invention automatically gets entered into the annual invention competition, which recognizes the best innovations developed at UAF and UAS by faculty, staff, and students.  Visit the disclosure page to learn more.

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CENTER ICE SEED FUND

The Center ICE Seed Fund is designed to boost commercialization success, entrepreneurialism, and innovation at the University of Alaska and throughout Alaska. The Center ICE Seed Fund invests directly in people, technologies, and commercialization efforts. Visit this link for more information.

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

For more information concerning Inventor and Entrepreneurial Resources, please download the attached pdf.

US Patent and Trademark Inventor and Entrepreneur Resources (PDF)

For more information on Virtici (a company that supports commercialization of biomedical technologies) and the ASCEND grant, visit www.ascendhub.org.

 

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GETTING A LITTLE HELP FROM OUR FRIENDS

Nanook Innovation Corporation and Nanook Tech Ventures add great value to our commercialization process. Nanook Innovation Corporation is a non-profit organization with a savvy board of directors looking to foster innovation and draw out the University's best technologies. Nanook Tech Ventures has a board filled with seasoned business professionals and investors interested in helping small startup companies successfully bring technology to the marketplace.