Print versionThese guidelines deal with various legal issues arising from the negotiation of research contracts and the assertion of UQ policy and interest in relation to intellectual property such as patents, confidential information, student project involvement, GST, insurance and indemnities and various special contract clauses.
Note: The content of this section is intended to be a guide only and should not be considered as a substitute for legal advice.
Further information
Negotiations in Good Faith
Negotiations often reach a stage where one or more parties want what they have agreed to in principle in writing, though negotiations are incomplete. A party usually puts forward a document under various names such as a "letter of intent", &q...
Patent Validity Issues - Confidential Purposive Disclosures
Disclosure of patentable inventive step information will destroy novelty (an essential requirement of patentable subject matter) unless the information is:- . (i) the subject of a publication in a paper for a learned society and a paten...
University Legal Personality and Identity
Section 4. (1) of the most recent Statute of Parliament governing the University ie "The University of Queensland Act 1998" provides for the following:- 4.(1) A university called "The University ...
UQ Intellectual Property Ownership
UQ’s policy is to solely own Intellectual Property rights (“IP”) to project outcomes generated by its employees in the course of conducting research projects with third parties (“Project IP”).