Confidentiality & IP

Confidentiality and Publication

To acknowledge DTC award recipients, team members, together with the title and an abstract of their submission, may be published. All other submission details will be considered confidential and proprietary. The dissemination, exchange or publication of this information as well as that developed under a DTC award will require formal consent from the project team's Research Advisor. For the most part, publication is encouraged, but may be delayed to allow for time to negotiate an IP agreement or complete a patent application.

IP Policy

Specific to the DTC, TRLabs will fund R&D in exchange for first rights of refusal on the opportunity to license any arising IP that may be of interest to its members.

More specifically:

Without presupposing the types of IP that will or will not be generated nor encumber the DTC with IP arrangements that may prove irrelevant, participants in the challenge must simply agree that the IP policy of the University of the Principal Investigator apply to the work produced under the DTC. Should TRLabs or its partners be interested in the IP generated through the DTC the University of the Principal Investigator will negotiate, in good faith, licensing arrangements with TRLabs first. Any negotiated arrangements will naturally exclude work done under a GPL and not inhibit use of the IP for research and educational purposes.

(Note that this IP Policy is specific to the DTC and does not apply to any other R&D funded by TRLabs. In all other cases, TRLabs' standard IP Policy as outlined in the Affiliation Agreement between TRLabs and the Universities of Alberta, Calgary, Manitoba, Regina, and Saskatchewan will apply.)

 


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