Who receives an Inventor Incentive Award (IIA)?
YThe University pays PSU inventors a $1,000.00 Inventor Incentive Award at the time a U.S. patent application is filed for an invention. The IIA is paid only on the initial filing of a patent application and is not paid on divisional, continuation or CIP applications. An IIA is also paid on a PCT that is nationalized and a U.S. application is filed. At the time the U.S. application is filed, a distribution memo is sent to the inventors to determine the percentage of the IIA each inventor is entitled to. This decision should be determined among the inventors. Only inventors who were Penn State employees at the time the invention is made are entitled to a share of the Inventor Incentive Award.
