UR 1.12 Assistant to the President patent records, 1966-1982, 2 cubic feet

In 1965, the Drexel Institute of Technology first formulated a policy on patents resulting from research by Drexel employees and students.  Around 1970, a Patent Advisory Committee was established to review and make recommendations regarding cases where patent ownership was unclear.  The Patent Advisory Committee was first appointed, and later chaired, by the vice president for academic affairs.  In the early 1970s, this responsibility was transferred to the assistant to the president.  This collection consists of administrative files relating to patents and the Patent Advisory Committee and a series of files on individual patent applications where ownership was considered by the Patent Advisory Committee.

This collection is unprocessed.  A preliminary inventory is available in the archives; contact the archivist at archives@drexel.edu for more information.  Because the collection may contain confidential information, portions are currently restricted pending review by the archivist.