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<span id="docs-internal-guid-aafb0876-802d-1bd5-dcd4-e696b455348d"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Many faculty and admin believe feel that the university’s current IP policy generally favors studentsand promotes innovation. The current university’s IP policy does not convey this. In factHowever, students generally a significant portion of the student body and faculty view the current IP policy negatively: first, dropout or graduate, then create your ideas. In several instances, the university Wichita State University’s Technology Transfer has been seen as a threat trying to innovationrectify this. Some students For example, they have begun to question the intellectual property agreement and have even described feeling deceived or coerced by opened the institution when it comes discussion to IP disputesstudents. A clear IP policy, at this point, is insufficient Some design- the university needs an overhaul if it wants based classes lead students to successfully produce academic creations that could easily be patentable. Technology Transfer has made it a heart point to speak at some of ideation and ingenuitythese classes (Senior Design for Engineering). &nbsp;This overhaul must AT LEAST consist of providing: *A space where There are even workshops that help students, professors, researchers, and faculty, and administrators can openly/discuss understand intellectual property on a student and professor level.*Courses on patent law, intellectual property, nondisclosure agreements, and common legal challenges startups face.*A legal counsel consisting of lawyers that are not on retainer for the university*Workshops on IP, patent research, Startup Wisdom*A channel for students and faculty to comfortably voice their IP concerns </span></span>