How should I handle situations in which my outside interests could conflict with University interests in my development of intellectual property?
This situation may arise when your outside company or consulting work lie in a domain which overlaps your University research area. For example, you may have a new idea for intellectual property, and a question may arise as to which entity you were working for at the time you generated the idea. You have the potential for personal benefit in either case, but the interests of the company, your consulting business, and the University may be in conflict. In some situations, there may be arrangements in place which clarify ownership of your time and effort, and therefore of the intellectual property, at the time it was generated. For example, you may have a specific consulting assignment spelled out in a contract, or a product development roadmap in the company, which detail – in a very specific way compared to the plan for your research program and contracts – your responsibility or opportunity to develop the intellectual property under question. Absent this evidence, the University or yo
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