This Rule is made under clause 44 of the By-law.

1. The Council may make Policies from time to time that provide for some or all of the following:

(a) ownership and commercial exploitation of University Intellectual Property Rights;

(b) payment to Staff Members and/or Students in connection with the creation and commercial exploitation of University Intellectual Property Rights;

(c) disclosure by Staff Members and Students of University Intellectual Property Rights; and

(d) any other matter concerning Intellectual Property Rights.

2. Any Policy binds the University, Staff Members and Students, and, at the request of the University, Staff Members and Students will do all those things, including the execution of assignments, licences or other agreements or documents, necessary to give effect to such a Policy. The University reserves the right to alter Policies from time to time as it deems necessary for the good management of the University.

3. In this Rule:

Intellectual Property Rights means all intellectual property rights, including but not limited to:

(a) patents, copyright, design rights, trade marks, rights in circuit layouts, plant variety rights and any right to have confidential information kept confidential; and

(b) any registration, application for or right to apply for registration, of any of those rights;

Staff Member means each employee of the University;

Student means each person enrolled or otherwise participating in a course, research project or other program offered by the University.

Policy means a policy made under clause 1 of this Rule; and

University Intellectual Property Rights means Intellectual Property Rights created by a Staff Member in the course of that Staff Member's employment by the University and/or by a Student, in the course of that student's participation in a course, research project or other program in respect of which he or she has elected to be bound by the relevant Policy.

4. Words denoting the singular include the plural and vice versa.