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Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)

Patented fabricated equipment or any form of patented product that was
developed from student thesis with 50% funding from the university shall be
a joint ownership of the author(s) and the university. When commercialized,
the author(s) and the faculty adviser shall have an equal share from the
70% of the royalty while the remaining 30% shall go to the university.

Registration for copyright and patenting of products or equipment developed
from research shall be the joint responsibility of the author and the
university through the IPR Officer.

Commercialized patented equipment/product that was produced from a
faculty research project shall be jointly owned by the author and the
university.

The author shall be entitled to 60% of the royalty while the remaining 40%
shall go the university.

The amount earned by the university in the form of royalties shall be placed
in a thrust fund and shall be used to fund future faculty and student
research projects.

Workload Credit

The involvement of faculty members to actual operation of the
colleges/campuses or the university shall be credited to a research workload
with the corresponding credit points earned for the semester (Annex “D”).

A faculty researcher who exceeds the minimum workload requirement in
teaching shall be entitled to a research overload pay that is equivalent to the
amount approved for the academics.

Effectivity

This shall take effect upon the approval of the University Administrative
Council and the Board of Regents.

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