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Why Should I Participate in Technology Development?
Why should I notify MD Anderson Cancer Center about my invention?
Under UT System policy, employees must disclose inventions and discoveries made using MD Anderson Cancer Center facilities, made on MD Anderson Cancer Center time or that relate to his or her MD Anderson Cancer Center employment duties as a requirement of employment.
MD Anderson Cancer Center may choose to provide the resources and pay the expenses of patenting and commercializing your invention. The rights to inventions that MD Anderson Cancer Center does not choose to commercialize will be returned to you. Please note that the technology development process does NOT ordinarily interfere with the publication of your results.
What rewards/compensations are there for an employee who has an invention?
• After all costs relating to patenting of the invention are paid, income from the sale of products developed from MD Anderson Cancer Center inventions is distributed as follows:
• 50% to the Inventor;
• 25% to the Inventor's department for his/her research;
• 20% to the MD Anderson Cancer Center Patent Fund;
• 5% to the Office of Technology Commercialization.