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CSE Reference Material:
 CSE "Principles Regarding Commercial Activities"
 CRA "Best Practices for Commercialization Oversight"
 CSE Listing of Activities
 CSE Faculty Leaves
KUOW Interview: "High Tech Entrepreneurship":
 Diorio, Etzioni, Gottesman, 2/28/01
Overview/Primer Material:
 Lazowska's Talk on "Software IP" 5/3/00
 UW "Brief Guide to IP"
 UW "IP Primer"
    Patents
    Copyright
    Trademark
    Trade Secrets
 UW CSE Commercialization FAQ
 Chuck Williams (UWTT SCV) slideset
 "An Introduction to Venture Capital" (pdf slides)
 "An Introduction to Venture Capital" (UWTV)
Authoritative Source Material:
 UW Faculty Code Links
    Outside Professional Work Policy
    Patent, Invention, and Copyright Policy
    Employee Conflict of Interest
 UW College of Engr. Oversight Guidelines
Issues Affecting Both Students and Faculty:
 Software Licensing
 Who Owns Software?
 OTL, or not OTL?
 Disclosing Technologies to OTL
 A Decent NDA for Confidential Software
Issues Affecting Faculty:
 UW Consulting Guidelines
 Corporate Involvement beyond Consulting
 UW CSE Leave w/o Pay Guidelines
 Cautionary Tale of a (non-UW) Consulting Agreement
 Cautionary Tale of a (non-UW) Startup Experience
Issues Affecting Students:
 Doing UW Research With Affiliate Faculty
 Invention Disclosures by Graduate Students
 If You Arrive at UW with an Idea
 Non-Disclosure and Internship Agreements
 An Internship Using UW Code
 For Students Starting Companies
 OTL, or not OTL?
 A Tale of Student Licensing: A Startup
 A Tale of Student Licensing: An Established Co.
 CSE Faculty Leaves
 Legal Advice
University of California Policies:
 General Guidelines
 New UC EECS IP policy
 UCB CITRIS IP policy (pdf)
 Rich Newton presentation (pdf)
Useful Links:
 UW Office of IP and Tech Transfer Home
 UW OIP&TT Software & Copyright Home
 UW OIP&TT Non-Software Home
 Cautionary Tales
 Recommended Books
Archives:
 Policy Proposals, 11/98
   

This page is intended as a repository of information for students, staff, and faculty regarding commercialization, intellectual property, non-disclosure agreements, and related issues.

Key resources include the department chair (Hank Levy), the past-chair (Ed Lazowska, during whose tenure much of the department's experience in these matters was gained), the commercialization oversight committee (currently Alan Borning (ch) and Jean-Loup Baer), and the Office of Technology Licensing (specifically Fred Holt).

If you have any involvement, questions, or concerns, consult these individuals.

Do not just talk to your advisor -- that is not sufficient.

Note that even something as apparently innocuous as a summer employment agreement presented to a graduate student by a company may be fraught with peril. Don't sign these without seeking advice.

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