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Office of Technology Commercialization
MRIOB 4.349701 E Expressway 83, McAllen, TX 78501
Phone: (956) 665-3032
Phone Alt: (956) 665-3205
Email: otc@utrgv.edu
Student Inventors
Are you a UTRGV student enrolled in a degree program and you have conceived a patentable invention idea or a Copyrightable software or any other artistic work? If yes then you much be wondering about some of the following questions
All of the above questions have the same answer: Tuition paying students own all of their work (with 4 exceptions). This comes from the UT System Regents’ Rule 90101 on Intellectual Property, Section 6.
Tuition paying students enrolled in a degree program own their patentable inventions, prototypes, and copyrights for software and artistic works. This includes work created in courses, using university labs and resources, or during extracurricular activities. This is true unless the
• Students are employees of any UT System institution and the work is developed within the scope of employment
• Students jointly create the invention or software with an employee
• Students work on a work-for-hire or directed institutional project
• Work is sponsored or grant-funded
Sharable flyer: What do I own?
