- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
Dear ANR Colleagues:
You will be receiving or have already received an email about the Patent Amendment project. It is very important that you respond to this email. The outside vendor working with the Office of the President on the Patent Amendment project started sending emails on Nov. 28 to employees. We are starting to get questions about the Patent Amendment process so we wanted to share the answers to frequently asked questions.
If you haven’t seen it, the email may have gone to your spam folder. Please remember to check your spam or junk mail each day for this email. The email address from the vendor is UC_Patent_Amendment@vres.us.
You need to know your 9-digit employee ID number to complete the process.
FAQs:
Where can I find my employee ID number?
- on your campus-issues Employee ID badge
- on your “Surepay” statement or paycheck
- on your personal account on At Your Service Online (https://atyourserviceonline.ucop.edu/) that is noted in the e-mail notice you will be receiving from UC_Patent_Amendment@vres.us
What does the e-mail say?
Subject: PLEASE SIGN NOW: UC Patent Amendment
Dear UC Colleague,
When you first joined the University of California, you signed a Patent Acknowledgment or Agreement (depending on when you joined UC) as a condition of employment or your ability to use UC research resources and facilities. Because of recent court decisions in the case Stanford v. Roche, it is necessary for you to sign an amendment to that document.
This amendment clarifies the original intent of the Patent Acknowledgment or Agreement you signed: to assign to the University rights to inventions and patents you may conceive or develop while employed by UC, using UC research facilities and/or resources, or using gift, grant or contract funds received through the University.
This is not a change in the Patent Policy; it is simply an amendment that clarifies the existing Acknowledgment or Agreement in light of the court decisions.
Your electronic signature on the Patent Acknowledgment/Agreement Amendment available here will ensure that the University is able to fulfill its intellectual property obligations to research sponsors, industrial partners, the federal government and others.
Signing the Amendment is easy. Simply write down your PIN number shown below; then click on the signature link to sign your Patent Acknowledgment/Agreement Amendment. You will also need your Employee ID number, which you can find by signing in to your personal account on At Your Service Online (https://atyourserviceonline.ucop.edu/).
ANR employees need to follow the directions in the email and provide the email signature. More details about the Patent Amendment project are available on At Your Service at http://atyourservice.ucop.edu/employees/policies_employee_labor_relations/patent-acknowledgment.
Linda Marie Manton, Executive Director
UC ANR Staff Personnel Unit
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This announcement is also posted and archived on the ANR Update pages.