Leiden University has legal counsels with different expertise areas, working in various departments: General Legal affairs (JZ) Privacy legal counsels and officers: privacy related matters, data protection HR: employment related matters Luris: research contracts, valorisation, intellectual property

What are patents?   Patents protect an invention from being commercialised by others without the owner’s consent. A patent does not give a right for use, but rather prevents others from having the right to use your invention (without your permission). The responsibility for enforcing the right…

Any intellectual property that you may generate within employment of Leiden University of LUMC is owned by Leiden University or LUMC. Since 2010, Leiden University has issued official regulations on working for third parties which state the rules on several topics involved, like the sharing of net proceeds…

You can easily make your own Confidentiality Agreements (CDA), Material Transfer Agreements (MTA) and Consultancy  Agreements with the Luris Contract Tool. In addition to these standard intellectual property contracts, the Contract Tool can also be used to create work documents that are…