Legal problems for belonging of ownership for industry-university cooperation research's results Cho, Hyun-Lae Largely there are two types of industry-university cooperation researches(commissioned researches or joint researches). One is industry solely funded research, the other is government mainly funded and industry matching funded research. In the first type of researches, contracts can be negotiated directly between university and industry sponsors. And the industries generally has ownership rights for resulting patentable inventions by the contracts because of only the reason that they funded. This is not unfair to universities that have mainly created the inventions. The second type of researches is under relating law and national R&D regulations. According to national R&D regulations, any patentable inventions are largely co-owned by the university and industry on the basis of the funding rate between government and industry. This is complicated and arouses the patent co-owned problems in the patent law. Therefore, It is preferable that the ownership rights should be granted to the university or industry by the contribution rate to the inventing not by the funding

Legal problems for belonging of ownership for industry-university cooperation research's results Cho, Hyun-Lae Largely there are two types of industry-university cooperation researches(commissioned researches or joint researches). One is industry solely funded research, the other is government mainly funded and industry matching funded research. In the first type of researches, contracts can be negotiated directly between university and industry sponsors. And the industries generally has ownership rights for resulting patentable inventions by the contracts because of only the reason that they funded. This is not unfair to universities that have mainly created the inventions. The second type of researches is under relating law and national R&D regulations. According to national R&D regulations, any patentable inventions are largely co-owned by the university and industry on the basis of the funding rate between government and industry. This is complicated and arouses the patent co-owned problems in the patent law. Therefore, It is preferable that the ownership rights should be granted to the university or industry by the contribution rate to the inventing not by the funding

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