Current Completing an invention disclosure form Intellectual Property Disclosure Form Inventors Enabler Shares Public Disclosure Complete Important information An Invention Disclosure Form provides key information that is used by patent attorneys to draft and apply for a patent application. This page provides information as background to completing the form and if you have any additional questions regarding completion of the form, please contact Philip.Hoekstra@uct.ac.za (021 650 2609) or Wasiu.Afolabi@uct.ac.za (021 650 3076). Public Disclosure Public disclosure occurs through oral presentation at meetings at which the audience is not solely comprised of UCT Staff and Students, all forms of publication no matter how informal (abstracts, posters, non-accredited journals) as well as by SUBMITTING A THESIS for examination. Special provisions exist, however, for maintaining theses confidential for a period, or a Non-Disclosure Agreement can be put in place by RC&I with external parties. Inventors Guide An Inventors Guide, which provides details of the patenting process as well as commercialisation of IP and benefit share to inventors can be downloaded here: http://www.rci.uct.ac.za/sites/default/files/image_tool/images/100/IP/InventorsGuide2015.pdf Inventors and Enablers An “Inventor” must contribute to the inventive step that resulted in the invention. An Enabler is not involved in the inventive step, but may have done significant work, as directed by the inventors to prove the concept. Inventors may wish identified Enablers to share in any royalty income accruing to the Inventors and this is recorded in the benefit share table. Additional information regarding how to determine inventorship can be obtained by contacting RC&I. Personal Details NB. Full names and your home address details are required by the Patent Office. In terms of the requirements of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), you are hereby notified that UCT will retain the personal information in the following tables (for inventors and enablers) in its patent case files and on the electronic Inteum IP Management database for as long as a case remains active and until abandoned cases are destroyed. Certain information is required for transformation reporting. The details below will also be transmitted to the firm of Patent Attorneys and their foreign Associates, who are appointed by UCT to act on behalf of the university. Full names and personal residential addresses are required by the various patent offices in which patent applications may be filed. In certain cases, the patents are published with your full names and residential address as well as your nationality. Personal details are also submitted to National IP Management Office (NIPMO) in terms of the IPR Act as well as to the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) who record IP and Creative Outputs. By submitting this form to RC&I permission is deemed to have been granted by you for the use of your personal information for these purposes by each individual whose details appear below. If you leave UCT, please keep our office updated regarding your contact details so that we can contact you for the payment of any royalty income accruing to the inventors.
