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Why Should I Participate in Technology Development?
Why should I notify M. D. Anderson Cancer Center about my invention?
Under UT System policy, employees must disclose inventions and discoveries made using M. D. Anderson Cancer Center facilities, made on M. D. Anderson Cancer Center time or that relate to his or her M. D. Anderson Cancer Center employment duties as a requirement of employment.
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center may choose to provide the resources and pay the expenses of patenting and commercializing your invention. The rights to inventions that M. D. 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 M. D. 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 M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Patent Fund;
• 5% to the Office of Technology Commercialization.