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<span id="docs-internal-guid-0b27bb3c-c482-0169-8c0a-c1c19d6ae170"><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This Office works to inform faculty about proper methods ensuring intellectual property rights during the disclosure of inventions or patent-worthy discoveries. It also </span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">assists faculty in creating a record of invention (ROI) statement, filing the ROI with the UCOP database, and conducts the contractual negotiations with industrial partners or venture capitalists. Its second primary function is to work closely with UCOP Office of IAS accounting staff to assist with financial record keeping, accounts receivable and accounts payable for tech transfer transactions.</span></span>

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== Blum Center - Global California: The World at Home ==

<span id="docs-internal-guid-0b27bb3c-c476-1868-88eb-861b95649127"><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Blum Center at UC Merced is an extension of the original Blum Center from Berkeley, only recently founded from a seed grant. There are also centers at UC Davis, and UCLA. The Blum Center will have a specific focus on the Central Valley’s future prosperity. By utilizing interdisciplinary expertise from students with all different backgrounds, the Blum Center will be able to exercise a wide variety of projects in both Engineering Service Learning and Capstone projects. The Blum Center provides a unique perspective because of its location and high concentration of first generation college students.</span></span>