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Hello Labnetwork,</div>
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My clean room offers process development services to both researchers and industry. I am working closely with couple of the engineers, and we are at the point that warrants a discussion about intellectual property. We are considering applying for a patent,
but it is relatively costly and it will likely to be owned by the university as they are going to apply for us. We are mostly in it for the bragging rights (which can be satisfied with a paper submission, instead of a patent) but it has brought many questions
to fore for us; e.g. if CR engineers develop a device as a service but CR & engineers are paid for it, who holds the rights to the IP? What if it was an accidental discovery (i.e. not a deliverable for the development service)? Is it to the CR's best interest
to keep it in house, or develop a patent library? Is there an approach that works to serve both CR and researchers? Our clean room is at a weird intersection where it is not clear if the main customer base is the researchers or the industry, and I am wondering
if there is a clear answer to that.</div>
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Many thanks,</div>
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H. Bilge Yagci</div>
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Cardiff University</div>
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