California Government Code

§ 13988.2

GOV § 13988.2 Effective Jan 1, 2013Div. 3 · Title 2 · Part 4.5 · Ch. 2

Statute text

(a)The department shall perform all of the following functions:

(1)Commencing January 1, 2015, and every three years thereafter, track intellectual property generated by state employees or with state funding.

(2)Develop a database that includes, but is not limited to, tracking intellectual property by category of protection, date of creation, owner of intellectual property, grantee, state agency or granting entity, sources of funding, and status of licensing, including invention utilization updates. Failure to include an item in the database does not create any presumption regarding ownership. Prior to January 1, 2018, the database shall include the summary of state-owned intellectual property found in the California State Auditor’s Report 2011-106 on intellectual property. After January 1, 2018, and every three years thereafter, the database shall be updated using information collected by the department pursuant to this section.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2012, Ch. 463, Sec. 1. (AB 744) Effective January 1, 2013.