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Intellectual property

Intellectual property (IP) refers to creations of the mind, such as inventions; literary and artistic works; designs etc.

Subject to the remaining provisions of this section, where you are enrolled on a course delivered by CE, and where you are not also considered to be an employee of the University, you will own all Intellectual Property (“IP”) that you create and/or develop while you are studying at the University, subject to the exceptions prescribed below.

Exceptions to your sole ownership of IP may include, yet not be exclusive to:

  • Where you generate IP as part of an activity where a third party requires ownership (e.g. where on a placement your host requires ownership, or where your studies are sponsored and the sponsor requires ownership);
  • Where you generate IP that builds upon existing IP generated by employees of the University;
  • Where you generate IP that you jointly create and/or develop with employees of the University;
  • Where you generate IP outside the normal teaching and learning activities of your course, and with more than incidental use of University resources;
  • Where you are recruited on a programme of study under the specific understanding that, due to the particular commercial or IP-sensitive environment, your IP position is varied.

Where your situation falls within the exceptions prescribed above, the University may require you to assign your IP rights to the University whereupon you will have access to the revenue sharing scheme applicable to employees of the University.  

The University will share with you any financial benefit accruing to it from the commercial application of University-owned IP which you create and/or develop, in accordance with its Intellectual Property Policy from time to time in place.

You acknowledge that during the course of your studies you may have access to confidential information belonging to the University or a third party and you agree that you will not use such confidential information other than in connection with your studies (and then only upon such terms and conditions as may have been agreed) and will not without the prior consent of the University or the third party to whom it belongs disclose such confidential information.