General Guidelines
- "An In-Depth Look at the NIH SBIR and STTR Programs" (7.4 MB PowerPoint file) - A presentation by Kathleen Shino, Acting NIH SBIR/STTR Program Coordinator. April 12, 2005.
- Yale University Standards of Business Conduct. By President Richard C. Levin. October 24, 2003. Yale Bulletin & Calendar. Volume 32, Number 8.
- "Failure to Timely Report Inventions under a Government Contract Can Lead to Patent Forfeiture" (136K PDF file) April 2003 - By David W. Burgett, courtesy of Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.
- September 1, 2001 Report of the Committee on Cooperative Research Regarding Intellectual Property Rights and Information Technology
- Advice to Yale Faculty concerning External Consulting Activities
- A Tutorial on Technology Transfer in U.S. Colleges & Universities - By the Council on Governmental Relations, with special thanks to the Technology Transfer & Research Ethics Committee and Karen Hersey.
Do's and Don'ts for Keeping Lab Notebooks - By J. Peter Fasse and Ingrid A. Beattie of Fish & Richardson.- Do's and Don'ts for e-Lab Notebooks - By Diane L. Gardner of Fish & Richardson.
- Laboratory Record Keeping - By Todd E. Garabedian, courtesy of Wiggin & Dana. (Source: Nature Biotech. 1997 August; 15(8):799-800.)
- Nontraditional Publications and Their Effect on Patentable Inventions (39K PDF file) - By Todd E. Garabedian, courtesy of Wiggin & Dana. (Source: Nature Biotech. 2002 April; 20(4):401-402.)
- Patent Law You Can Use
- Continuation Patent Applications
- Foreign Patent Applications
- Inventorship
- Inventorship vs. Ownership of a Patent
- Maintaining Laboratory Notebooks
- Patent Application Filing Deadlines and Bars to Patentability
- Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)
- Patentability Searching
- Patents vs. Trade Secrets
- Provisional Patent Applications
- Reading a Patent: Part I - Cover Page
- Reading a Patent: Part II - Description and Claims
- Recent Changes in U.S. Patent Law
- Rule 56 - Duty of Candor and Good Faith
- Types of Intellectual Property
