To ensure compliance with the Bayh-Dole Act, UW–Madison requires its employees and graduate students to sign an agreement to comply with the requirements of the Bayh-Dole Act. If these and other requirements are not satisfied, a university may not have title (ownership) of the invention and associated patent rights.
The Bayh–Dole Act or Patent and Trademark Law Amendments Act (Pub. L. 96-517, December 12, 1980) is U.S. legislation dealing with intellectual property arising from federal government-funded research. Bayh-Dole permits universities that receive federal funding, such as UW–Madison, businesses, or non-profit organizations to elect to pursue ownership of an invention, rather than obligating inventors to assign inventions to the federal government. On May 14, 2018, several important revisions to regulations of the Bayh-Dole Act went into effect:
The changes to the Bayh-Dole Act affect all new funding agreements executed after May 14, 2018. Funding agreements in place prior to May 14, 2018, but amended after May 14, 2018, may also be subject to the updated provisions at the discretion of the funding agency.
Employees and graduate students.
To ensure compliance with the Bayh-Dole Act, UW–Madison requires its employees and graduate students to sign an agreement to comply with the requirements of the Bayh-Dole Act. If these and other requirements are not satisfied, a university may not have title (ownership) of the invention and associated patent rights.
To access the form to sign the agreement, visit: Invention Disclosures at UW-Madison.
For more information about intellectual property and a UW researcher’s obligation to disclose inventions created while carrying out their university duties at UW–Madison, visit the Intellectual Property page at research.wisc.edu.
UW–Madison employees are required to disclose inventions through the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF). WARF is the designated patent and licensing organization for UW–Madison. To learn more visit https://www.warf.org/.
05-14-2015