Changes

So here is the problem: You are an undergraduate or graduate student with an amazing idea that you want to secure a patent for, or turn into a start-up company. When you go to file a patent for your idea, you find out that your university is going to own more rights to that patent then you want to give up. Like many students do, you can either allow your university to own that much of your patent, or choose to push the status quo and advocate for change to your universities policies about Intellectual Property. Below you will see an example of the process students have gone through to make a difference on their campus by giving college students more rights to their intellectual property.

Here are two articles that tremendously helped other students in building their case: