SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
Archives and Records Management Department

Records Retention Schedules and Disposal Authorities (RRSDAs)

Technology Disclosure Files
RRSDA 1995-039

Office of Primary Responsibility (OPR):
Vice-President, Research - Univesity / Industry Liaison Office

Retention Periods

  Active
(in office)
SemiActive
(records centre)
Total Final Dispostion
OPR paper files CY + 6 years Nil CY + 6 years Destruction

CY = Current calendar year; CFY = Current fiscal year; CS = Current semester; S/O = Superseded or obsolete

Description

Correspondence, legal briefs, reports, statements of principal participating researchers, disclosure and other agreements, memoranda of understanding, notes and working papers.

When a faculty member has developed a technology or an invention and intends to pursue patenting independently the VP Research must be so advised. These records document such disclosures by faculty to the VP Research in accordance with the University's Patent Policy, R30.02.

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Retention and Filing Guidelines

CY = current year of technology disclosure.

Approved by the University Archivist

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