How to Disclose

Submit a Disclosure (online)

An online disclosure form is available via myUM portal. Once you log-in to the portal, on the left side of the screen under the enterprise menu, click on UMBiz. You may download brief instructions for submitting an online disclosure via UMBiz. Only UM personnel can have an access to myUM portal. If you need to obtain a myUM portal login, select the "First Time User" link on the myUM portal page, or contact the CITS helpdesk at help@umaryland.edu. Submitting the online form will ensure that your disclosure has been entered into OTT's system immediately and accurately.

For an inventor who has an appointment with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), please complete and submit the VA Certification of Invention Form along with the UM disclosure form.

Submit a Disclosure (paper)

You may submit a disclosure by completing one of the following forms:

• Copyright Disclosure Invention Form (MS-Word)
• Intellectual Property Disclosure Form (MS-Word)
• Tangible Research Property Disclosure Form (MS-Word)

OTT requires signatures from all inventors. Once you have submitted the form online or completed the downloaded form, please print and have all inventors sign and date. Then, email or mail a copy to OTT, attention Gail Knott, Office of Technology Transfer, ORD, 620 West Lexington Street, 4th floor, Baltimore, MD 21201

Policies

Policies and Procedures - Intellectual Property

• USM Policy on Intellectual Property
• UMB Policy on Intellectual Property
• USM/USB Policy on Patents (Effective 1990-2002)
• USM Policy on Copyrights (Effective 1990-2002)
• UMB Guidelines on Reproduction of Copyrighted Materials
• USM Policy on Classified and Proprietary Work
• The Bayh-Dole Act

Resources

• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Glossary of Terms
• U.S. Copyright Office: Copyright Basics (pdf)
• Council on Governmental Relations (COGR): The Bayh-Dole Act - A Guide to the Law and Implementing Regulations (pdf)