Intellectual Property Policy

The Intellectual Property Policy (“IP Policy”) affirms the College’s commitment to comply with United States law pertaining to intellectual property, including copyrights, trademarks, and patents and codifies College practices relevant to intellectual property. In addition to this IP Policy, the College has developed the Intellectual Property Resource Manual (“IP Resource Materials”) which outlines the relevant statutes, and recommends a variety of tools by which faculty, staff, and students can learn more about intellectual property law and ensure their own compliance with its provisions.

The College encourages all members of its community to respect faithfully the property rights and their assignees; to educate members of the campus community about intellectual property law and rights available under that law; and to exercise vigorously our rights and responsibilities as teachers, scholars, authors, and creators in educating students, creating new works of pedagogy, scholarship, and art, and sharing those works with a wider community.
 

Faculty, staff, and students are responsible for understanding this policy and will be accountable for actions that willfully disregard it. Intellectual property law is an unsettled area of the law which may be revised by law, amendment or adjudication. The College will monitor legal developments to ensure that College practices remain compliant with the letter and spirit of the law.