Dear Colleagues,
Since April 2015, UUP has been involved in efforts to address the proposed patent policy changes announced by SUNY just a month before. During the fall of 2015, we gathered member input through chapter meetings, campus Senate meetings, and phone interviews with patent holders.
UUP also received written comments and suggestions from concerned UUP members through emails and a special UUP web portal created for this purpose. UUP also reviewed patent policies at 40 top U.S. research universities/university systems for comparative purposes.
Following the collection of member input, UUP met repeatedly with SUNY between July 2015 and June 2016 to present our members’ concerns about SUNY’s original proposal and to propose changes. Upon the conclusion of those meetings, a number of revisions were made in SUNY’s proposal that addressed many of these concerns.
More details about the new policy are contained in a link on UUP’s website. Please share it with your colleagues.
http://uupinfo.org/negotiations/pdf/PatentPolicyAugust2016.pdf
The SUNY Board of Trustees has passed a resolution to begin the formal rule making process by publishing the proposed SUNY Patents and Inventions Policy for the purposes of seeking public comment. Information on that process is also contained in the link.
In Solidarity,
Fred Kowal