Salvete! I've oft thought it'd be nice if there were more crossover betwixt CODE4LIB and the GOVDOCLers. You should easily be able to hit
http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html and get your details. :) Cheers, Brooke Well, a faculty member approaches the repository with their CV and asks us >to investigate all their publications to see how much of their work we can >deposit. They list their patents as part of their scholarly output on their >CV. My understanding is that by virtue of having a patent, they hold the >copyright to that intellectual property, and since they produced it in an >educational institution, we are free to capture their work in an IR. >However, that would depend on what the details of the patent granted >include, which is there the communication with the faculty member has to >happen. Am I off the mark here? I found a couple of patents in arXiv and >wanted to see how others treat these types of documents. > >Thank you! >L. > > >