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IP Policies Section 8 Let's have a look now at the sorts of provisions that can be found in IP policies and are provisions that you should be considering. Assignment and licence back In your institution's IP policy, there may be an option for any IP in academic materials which your institution chooses not to commercialise to be assigned back to you and any other relevant people who have been involved in the creation of such academic materials. Now, whether or not this occurs, or should occur, will depend on the individual circumstances and should be decided on a case by case basis. It may be that there is some disagreement between parties as to whether the IP in certain academic materials should be transferred to specific individuals or a team of people. To make sure that any such disagreement does not turn into a major issue and prevent you from using or commercialising academic materials, many IP policies have a dispute procedure in place. Such procedure will set out a process which all parties can follow if there is debate as to ownership of materials or what should be done with them. Your institution should ensure that it has a licence back of any materials which it transfers over to you. The licence may just be for research and teaching purposes only, but could extend to other purposes such as the promotional purposes of your institution. It may be that your institution decides to commercialise academic materials which have been developed by you during the course of your employment. If that is the case, your institution will allow you to use the relevant IP for your work at your institution and may award you a share of the revenues which arise as a result of the commercialisation of the materials. Credit What if you have made a significant contribution to some academic materials, but you do not own the IP rights in such materials because your institution does as you produced them in the course of your employment. You could ask to be credited for the work that you have done. This might not gain you any more financial reward than you might already be entitled to, but it would obviously help in terms of your reputation and standing in your particular field. 38