RESREACH COMPLIANCE
Research compliance promotes the responsible conduct of university research and requires adherence to institutional policies and applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations in the following areas: the use of human subjects in research, the use of animals in research, biosafety, conflict of interest issues, export controls, and time and effort reporting. Individual investigators are responsible for obtaining and maintaining any applicable research compliance reviews and approvals prior to performing their research.

Additional information regarding research compliance may be found at the Web site for the UTSA Office of Research Integrity and Compliance at http://www.utsa.edu/oric/.

PHOTOCOPYING OF COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL
Permission must be obtained from the copyright owner to copy copyrighted materials where: a) copying is not fair use, b) advice of Office of General Counsel (OGC) has not been sought, and c) copying extends beyond the boundaries of the guidelines contained in Appendix I of the UT System Photocopying Copyrighted Materials policy. http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/copypol.htm.

Additional information about UTSA copyrighting policies
may be found at
http://www.utsa.edu/hop/Chapter9/9-11.cfm
http://www.utsa.edu/hop/Chapter2/2-27.cfm.

Most works should be presumed to be copyright protected, unless further information from the copyright holder or express notice reveals that the copyright holder intends the work to be freely used by the public.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
It is the basic policy of The University of Texas System and its institutions that intellectual property be developed primarily to serve the public interest. The UT System also encourages the development of inventions to serve the needs of the creator and research sponsors, if any, by permitting timely discourse and protection of such intellectual property whether by development and commercialization, by publication, or both. The UT System generally does not assert its interest in certain copyrights such as scholarly or educational materials.

Intellectual property includes copyright materials, inventions, discoveries, trade secrets, artwork, technology, creations, scientific or technological developments, computer software or other forms of expression. This applies to persons employed by UTSA, to anyone using university facilities under the supervision of university personnel, to undergraduates, to candidates for master’s and doctoral degrees, and to postdoctoral and predoctoral fellows.

If intellectual property is developed by an employee of UTSA or invented at UTSA facilities under the supervision of UTSA personnel, the Board of Regents of the UT System owns the intellectual
property. Each inventor must assign his or her rights in the intellectual property to the Board. This includes all faculty, staff and students..

An inventor must disclose the intellectual property created to the university as early in the development process as possible by completion of an Invention Disclosure Form, which can be obtained at www.utsa.edu/techdev. The form should be submitted to the Office of the Associate Vice President for Research. Disclosure should occur well before submitting any information about intellectual property for publication, or making any public disclosure, oral or written, or even a private disclosure. The university has Intellectual Property Advisory Committees that review and make recommendations on whether the university should assert its interest in certain intellectual property.

Additional information regarding intellectual property policies may be found at
http://www.utsystem.edu/bor/rules/completeTOC- 2.htm#intellectualproperty
(UT System Regent’s Rules on intellectual property-series 90000)
http://www.utsa.edu/hop/Chapter2/2-27.cfm
(UTSA Intellectual Property).