What Supervisors Need to Know about Grad Students’ Intellectual Property – Apr 11, 2025
Session Description
April 11 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Hosted by: Centre for Graduate Professional Development at the School of Graduate Studies
Understanding intellectual property (IP) is important for all members of the university research community. Graduate students, however, are unique in the multiple roles they inhabit at the university, which have implications for their intellectual property rights and how they interact with the intellectual property of others. Graduate supervisors also need to understand the position their students are in with respect to intellectual property.
Facilitated by Jennifer Fraser, Director of Innovation in the Innovations & Partnerships Office, this workshop will cover essential topics for graduate supervisors at the University of Toronto, including:
- Understanding graduate student intellectual property rights, including in the context of working with a research supervisor, collaborator or industry
- Commercializing intellectual property arising from graduate student research
- Working with graduate students using confidential information or intellectual property from an external sponsor
- Where to access support for questions about graduate students and intellectual property
