Intellectual Property Patent & Licensing Guide for Construction Safety & Health Researchers and Inventors

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• Corporate Authors:
  CPWR--The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Description:
  The purpose of this Guide is to help researchers understand the key steps and questions they should consider, and the implications of protecting, or not protecting, any intellectual property (IP) that they develop while conducting research and developing products and materials to advance safety and health in the construction industry. This Guide was developed with safety and health researchers in mind, but it is also a useful resource for inventors and developers of equipment, tools, and resources designed to make construction job sites safer and healthier for workers. Having partnered with NIOSH since the inception of the construction safety and health research program in 1990, CPWR has deliberately moved its National Construction Center from surveillance and needs determination to intervention evaluation, and then towards dissemination of evidenced-based best practices - research to practice (r2p). The acceleration of r2p activities included a CPWR-hosted Technology Transfer Symposium in May 2012, bringing researchers together with representatives of government, manufacturing, contractor associations, labor, and the insurance industry to discuss barriers and strategic approaches to diffuse health and safety technologies and best practices across the construction industry. This Guide was developed in response to a recommendation resulting from the Symposium. It is intended as a guide to help you identify issues that may come up during your work. This Guide is not legal advice. You should check your university's or organization's guidelines and policies for patents and licensing, and/or contact an intellectual property lawyer to obtain legal advice. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Communications Media Construction Industry Education Health Personnel Health Promotion Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Staff Development Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Communication-systems Construction Construction-industry Construction-workers Disease-prevention Health-programs Health-science-personnel Injury-prevention Safety-education Safety-personnel Safety-programs Safety-research Training Work-environment Worker-health

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• Series:
  CPWR - Center for Construction Research and Training Publications
• Publisher:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Guidance
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  40 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Rabena, John F.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20044730
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2014 Apr; :1-34
• Contact Point Address:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 8484 Georgia Avenue, Suite 1000, Silver Spring, MD 20910
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20090901
• Source Full Name:
  Intellectual property patent & licensing guide for construction safety & health researchers and inventors
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:643ad320286f5c3dd6ef586407295b4e10a8bebe3e20361792942cbb3dae2e41d34111d27f43e096ece6b3b15177971612e703cb99cc1aa9038c705814186581
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/213223/cdc_213223_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 600.01 KB ]