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18 The starting point is always that you own the IP which you create as a student of the University. If you are also an employee, because, for instance, you are a Knowledge Transfer Partnership Associate, then the rules relating to employees will apply to you in that regard. If you are being sponsored through your course by an outside body, or you are employed by an outside body which is paying for you to do your course, then you need to check the terms of the contract between the University/you and the outside body. It could be that such contract gives the outside body ownership or other rights over your IP. There are some circumstances where the University needs you to transfer ownership of the IP which you Create to the University to protect its legitimate interests. These are relatively limited and mainly relate to circumstances where the University has to enter into a contract with another body to secure the investment or contract that is necessary to fund your work. This will apply, for example, where you wish to have a type of studentship where the sponsoring body is to have rights in relation to the IP which you might create (such as under an Engineering Doctorate Programme or a CASE Studentship). As the University will have to agree to obligations to the sponsor, before the University can allow you to take up the studentship, you must agree that the IP arising out of it will initially belong to the University. You will do this by transferring that IP to the University using a standard form of IP Assignment. The University also recognises that, from time to time, a student may work in collaboration with University employees on research (whether externally or internally funded). If commercialisable IP comes out of the research, it would not be fair to the other participants if one person were able to stop potentially valuable commercialisation by "hanging on" to their share of the IP and refusing to cooperate. For this reason, before you are allowed to participate in such research, you must agree to transfer any IP you may create to the University. This will all be explained to you at the time, as well as the revenue sharing benefits you can participate in. >>> UNIVERSITY STUDENTS