What contract provisions ensure the academic freedom of faculty and graduate students and protect their intellectual independence?
A. The research in the open component is academic in nature and will be published. BP, however, will have the right to review research results before publication to assess whether it wants to suggest that UC Berkeley patent intellectual property described in the publication that BP would like to license, and to ensure that no proprietary information is inadvertently revealed. This “prepublication review” is standard practice for all industry sponsored research. University research will not be performed in the proprietary component of the EBI.
A. The research in the open component is academic in nature and will be published. BP, however, will have the right to review research results before publication to assess whether it wants to suggest that UC Berkeley patent intellectual property described in the publication that BP would like to license, and to ensure that no proprietary information is inadvertently revealed. This “prepublication review” is standard practice for all industry sponsored research. University research will not be performed in the proprietary component of the EBI. The UC Berkeley campus and the UC Office of the President have extensive policies in place to ensure the openness of the research enterprise and the freedom of UC faculty, post-graduates and students to publish their research results without restriction: • Principles Regarding Rights to Future Research Results in University Agreements with External Parties • Guidelines on University-Industry Relations All industry research grants and contracts are
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