10 Ownership of Results: Intellectual Property Rights
The conditions relating to the ownership of work done under a joint
activity with UNU/IIST are as follows:
- UNU/IIST reserves the full right to put any work (including
patentable work) which has been financed or co-financed by UNU/IIST
into the public domain.
- Partners may themselves (i.e. without involving UNU/IIST)
further develop work done in collaboration with UNU/IIST. Any
further work done by partners in this way remains the sole
property of those partners. Thus, for example, a simple
prototype software system developed in collaboration with
UNU/IIST would be considered public domain, but a marketable
version based on this but constructed solely by the partner(s)
would belong only to the partner(s).
- If UNU/IIST's full costs, including full overhead costs, have
been paid by the partners, then the ownership of the joint work
rests with the partners.
info@iist.unu.edu, 19 August 1998
