Teams of collaborators are allowed to submit where each needs their role to be defined, not to exceed four collaborators per team.
Any type of contributor regardless of their level (ex. students or research assistant) are required to be included as part of the team of collaborators.
Intellectual Property
Connected Motion will be the owner and manager of all Intellectual Property generated by the collaboration projects. If Connected Motion ceases to exist at any point in the future, then IP ownership would be transferred to the collaborators.
Any licensing to be performed will be at the end of a contract/project and would involve the individuals that are still part of the contract.
All collaborators must sign an NDA to protect Connected Motion’s intellectual property.
Collaborated projects should be separate from any project work, course work, or IP conflicts at a different entity. Meaning that collaborators such as students cannot perform the same project as part of a thesis or senior project. The only exception is if the different entity formally gives up all IP rights on the project since its an industrial project.
IP that emerges where Connected Motion decides to adopt in a product can take several forms an is not restricted to patents. This could be copyright, software license, trade secret, or a trademark.
If any IP is agreed to or registered (through a patent or licensing agreement) based on past projects, royalties can be issued beyond contract expiry.
Incentives
Any publication resulting from this collaboration framework must include a Connected Motionaffiliation in order for incentives to be issued.
Any open source contributions resulting from this collaboration framework must be published under the Connected Motion public project repository for incentives to be issued.
For all team submissions, any issued incentives or rewards will be split equally among collaborators listed on the project.
If a paper is submitted for publication before a contract end date then applicant still qualifies for an incentive.
Any open-source project that is released by a contract-end date will qualify for incentives for 5 years after the contract end date.
Total amount of royalties are not to exceed 25% of the sales revenue per sold unit.
If there is more that one collaborator, the total amount of royalties would be spread equally among them.
Funding & Resources
Connected Motion will provide the research problem and technologies it has interest in investigating, necessary hardware, and relevant data. No other monetary contribution (Ex. a monthly reward) will be provided, as the focus will be on offering technical support and resources.
Resources allocated during the collaboration timeframe are expected to be surrendered at the end of the contract agreement unless renewed.
Conference & travel support will not be provided as part of this framework.
There will be no budget for purchasing any additional equipment or hardware outside of the context that is agreed to at the beginning of the collaboration agreement.
At the expiry of a contract agreement, if it is not renewed, the collaborators are required to surrender all resources that were shared by Connected Motion.
There will be no financial incentives or monthly salaries out of the context of publishing or commercializing defined in this framework.
General
Collaboration agreements or contracts would be on yearly basis with chance of renewal.
Every collaboration agreement is to be associated with one project.
A technical contact within Connected Motionwill be assigned to each project. This person will be responsible for providing technical guidance, reviewing progress, and helping steer the project toward success.
Connected Motion has the right to issue several parallel contacts or agreement with independent collaborators on the same idea/topic in the same time.
Connected Motion has the right to terminate the contract at anytime if it feels that the collaborators are not meeting their contractual obligations.
Student collaborators are not guaranteed employment for solely collaborating on a project. Connected Motion reserves the right to select which student collaborators are hired at the end of a project.
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