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> inventions you make are your property for professors and students. Originally this was only for professors (and I'm not so sure there weren't conflicts of in
by kps 3y ago
> inventions you make are your property for professors and students.
Originally this was only for professors (and I'm not so sure there weren't conflicts of interest). My first employer fought the university for the right to his Masters' thesis, and won, establishing the precedent for grad students (and hence my job).
- vlovich123 3y agoAh thanks for the correction. IIRC when I attended (2004-2009) this policy applied to undergrad too but I could be grossly misremembering.
- kps 3y agoHis thesis was 1983, so it was well established by then. (It's not itself online, but in case anyone's curious, a description of a project using the work is at http://doi.org/10.1145/1096419.1096446 http://doi.org/10.1145/1096419.1096446 thanks to ACM now making all old papers free.)