[Em-announcements] PLEASE SIGN NOW: UC Patent Amendment

[Veronica Ruiz]

Enrollment Management Staff,

Please be advised that you will receive an e-mail notification labeled:  PLEASE SIGN NOW: UC Patent Amendment. This is a valid PERSONALIZED e-mail. The pin number provided on the e-mail is personalized to you. If you need assistance with obtaining the last four digits of your employee ID number, please contact your payroll coordinator for assistance. These numbers can also be found at the top of your employee timesheet.

Please print the acknowledgement page for your personnel file and provide a copy to your departmental payroll coordinator.

Feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns at ext. 2-4020 or via e-mail at veronica.ruiz at ucr.edu<mailto:veronica.ruiz at ucr.edu> regarding the UC Patent Amendment.



Thanks,



Veronica Ruiz

Management Services Officer

Associate Vice Chancellor Enrollment Management Office

University of California Riverside

3113 Student Services Building

Riverside, CA 92521

951-827-4020

951-827-6344 Fax


Dear UC Colleague,

When you first joined the University of California, you signed a Patent Acknowledgment or Agreement (depending on when you joined UC) as a condition of employment or your ability to use UC research resources and facilities. Because of recent court decisions in the case Stanford v. Roche, it is necessary for you to sign an amendment to that document.

This amendment clarifies the original intent of the Patent Acknowledgment or Agreement you signed: to assign to the University rights to inventions and patents you may conceive or develop while employed by UC, using UC research facilities and/or resources, or using gift, grant or contract funds received through the University.

This is not a change in the Patent Policy; it is simply an amendment that clarifies the existing Acknowledgment or Agreement in light of the court decisions.

Your electronic signature on the Patent Acknowledgment/Agreement Amendment available here will ensure that the University is able to fulfill its intellectual property obligations to research sponsors, industrial partners, the federal government and others.

Signing the Amendment is easy. Simply write down your PIN number shown below; then click on the signature link to sign your Patent Acknowledgment/Agreement Amendment. You will also need your Employee ID number, which you can find by signing in to your personal account on At Your Service Online (https://atyourserviceonline.ucop.edu/).






Personal Identification Number : XXXXX

Link to Sign Patent Amendment<https://www.vres.us/webapps/vwr2101.pgm>
(or paste this URL into your browser: http://www.vres.us/ucpatent.html.)



Thank you for promptly signing,


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