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Regulation 7.1.1 – The Intellectual Property Committee
Regulation 7.1.1 – The Intellectual Property Committee
Pursuant to Statute 7.1 Intellectual Property the Council of Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology makes the following Regulation entitled - Regulation 7.1.1 – The Intellectual Property Committee.
1. The RMIT University Intellectual Property Committee (“the Committee”) is an advisory Committee to the Vice-Chancellor and President and will have the following members.
(a) Members ex officio:
Vice-Chancellor and President, or nominee
Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic and Vice-President, or nominee
Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research and Innovation and Vice-President
University Librarian
General Counsel
Director, Research Collaborations and Partnerships
(b) Nominated members:
Three academic staff members to be nominated by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research and Innovation and Vice-President, in consultation with the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic and Vice-President.
One representative of RMIT’s research student cohort.
(c) Co-opted members:
The Committee, at the discretion of the Chair, will have the power to co-opt members to provide required expertise. Such members shall have full speaking and voting rights.
(d) Observers (non-voting):
Persons may be invited by the Chair of the Committee from time to time as non-voting members to attend and advise the Committee on specific matters. An observer’s participation will extend only to the meeting(s) nominated by the Committee.
2. (a) The Chair shall be the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research and Innovation and Vice-President, or their nominee.
If the role of Chair is undertaken by a nominee of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research and Innovation and Vice President, such nomination:
- shall be reviewed at the beginning of each year
- may be extended for consecutive terms
- may be chosen from the existing membership
- shall not negate the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research and Innovation and Vice Presidents’ ex officio membership of the Committee.
(b) The Committee will elect a Deputy Chair from its voting members at the first meeting in each calendar year.
3. (a) Nominated members will hold office for a term of two years.
(b) A member may be reappointed.
4. Where a vacancy in the membership of the Committee occurs other than by the expiry of a member’s term of office a person will be nominated as prescribed in section 1 to fill that vacancy provided that where such vacancy occurs within three months before the expiry of the member’s term of office the position may be left vacant for the remainder of the term.
5. The Committee shall meet:
(a) Not less than once in each semester.
(b) When convened by the Chairperson or at the request of the Vice-Chancellor and President.
6. The Committee will be responsible for all aspects of intellectual property arising from research, its application and innovation, teaching materials and courseware and their commercial application (“intellectual property”) within the University and without limiting the generality of the same will:
(a) Make policy recommendations on intellectual property ownership rights between the University, its academic and research groups, members of staff and students, its commercial companies and parties external to the University including the division of any income derived from the commercialisation of intellectual property.
(b) Recommend the extent to which the University will support the development of any intellectual property.
(c) Inform the Vice-Chancellor and President on the activities of the Committee.
(d) Recommend on the dissemination of material to inform the wider University community of any matters of intellectual property law, including for research, teaching materials, courseware and student assessment and monitor the effectiveness of such dissemination.
(e) Inform the University community about intellectual property matters.
(f) Recommend to the Vice-Chancellor and President the establishment of a sub-Committee to resolve any dispute submitted to it by a member of staff or student concerning:
(i) The ownership of intellectual property.
(ii) The division of any income arising from the commercialisation of intellectual property.
7. Where the Committee is unable to resolve any dispute submitted to it under paragraph (f) of section 6 of this Regulation, the member of staff or student may appeal to the Vice-Chancellor and President.