North Carolina State University, Committees, Patent and Invention Committee Records 1940-1979

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Creator: North Carolina State University. Patent and Invention Committee
Size: 1.5 linear feet (3 archival boxes)
Call number: UA 022.022

The records of the North Carolina State University (earlier North Carolina State College) Committee on Patents and Inventions are dated from 1940 to the 1970s. The Committee was appointed by the North Carolina State College Dean of Administration, Colonel J. W. Harrelson. The committee members were faculty of North Carolina State College. The records include patent policy and procedures, patent and invention disclosures, agenda, minute and meeting notes, annual reports, examples of patent and invention diagrams, Invention management brochures and articles of incorporation of the North Carolina State College Research Foundation.

In 1940 Colonel J. W. Harrelson, Dean of Administration of North Carolina State College (later University), appointed a committee of faculty members to make recommendations on institutional policy governing patents and inventions developed in the laboratories of the college and to prepare papers, by-laws and other documents necessary for the establishment of a research foundation at the college. The name of the corporation was the North Carolina State College Research Foundation. The purpose of the corporation was to promote educational objectives by encouraging, fostering and conducting scientific investigations and industrial research and by training and developing persons for the conduct of such investigations and research. The Patent and Invention Committee was also responsible for reviewing patent applications and patent disclosures and for issuing patents to corporations or individuals.

Biographical/historical note

In 1940 Dean of Administration of North Carolina State College (later University), Colonel J. W. Harrelson appointed a group of faculty members of the College to be a part of the Patent and Inventions Committee to make recommendations on an institutional policy governing patents and inventions developed in the laboratories of the college and to prepare papers, by-laws and other documents necessary for the establishment of a research foundation at the college. The name of the corporation was the North Carolina State College Research Foundation.

The purposed of the corporation were to encourage, foster and conduct scientific investigations and industrial research and to train and develop persons for the conduct of such investigations and research.

The Patent and Invention Committee was also responsible for reviewing patent applications and patent disclosures and for issuing patents to corporations or individuals.

Scope/content

The Committee on Patents and Inventions records are dated from 1940 to the 1970s. The records include patent policy and procedures, patent and invention disclosures, agenda, minute and meeting notes, annual reports, examples of patent and invention diagrams, invention management brochures and articles of incorporation of the North Carolina State College Research Foundation.

Arrangement

Collection is arranged chronologically.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], North Carolina State University, Committees, Patent and Invention Committee Records, UA 022.022, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC

Source of acquisition

Transferred from North Carolina State University, Patent and Invention Committee.

Processing information

Processed by Vivian Phinizy, February 2011; Finding aid by Vivian Phinizy, February 2011

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Meetings, Policies and Procedures, Diagrams and Annual Reports 1940-1969 1 of 2

Box 1

Meetings, Policies and Procedures, Diagrams and Annual Reports 1940-1969 2 0f 2

Box 1, Folder 2

Meetings, Policies and Procedures, Diagrams and Annual Reports 1970 1 0f 2

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Meetings, Policies and Procedures, Diagrams and Annual Reports 1970 2 0f 2

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Meetings, Policies and Procedures, Diagrams and Annual Reports 1971 1 of 3

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Meetings, Policies and Procedures, Diagrams and Annual Reports 1971 2 of 3

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Meetings, Policies and Procedures, Diagrams and Annual Reports 1971 3 of 3

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Meetings, Policies and Procedures, Diagrams and Annual Reports 1972 1 of 2

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Meetings, Policies and Procedures, Diagrams and Annual Reports 1972 2 of 2

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Meetings, Policies and Procedures, Diagrams and Annual Reports 1973 1 of 2

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Meetings, Policies and Procedures, Diagrams and Annual Reports 1973 2 of 2

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Meetings, Policies and Procedures, Diagrams and Annual Reports 1974 1 of 3

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Meetings, Policies and Procedures, Diagrams and Annual Reports 1974 2 of 3

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Meetings, Policies and Procedures, Diagrams and Annual Reports 1974 3 of 3

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Meetings, Policies and Procedures, Diagrams and Annual Reports 1975 1 of 3

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Meetings, Policies and Procedures, Diagrams and Annual Reports 1975 2 of 3

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Meetings, Policies and Procedures, Diagrams and Annual Reports 1975 3 of 3

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Meetings, Policies and Procedures, Diagrams and Annual Reports 1976 1 of 3

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Meetings, Policies and Procedures, Diagrams and Annual Reports 1976 2 of 3

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Meetings, Policies and Procedures, Diagrams and Annual Reports 1976 3 of 3

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Meetings, Policies and Procedures, Diagrams and Annual Reports 1977 1 of 2

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Meetings, Policies and Procedures, Diagrams and Annual Reports 1977 2 of 2

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Meetings, Policies and Procedures, Diagrams and Annual Reports 1978

Box 3, Folder 8

Meetings, Policies and Procedures, Diagrams and Annual Reports 1979

Box 3, Folder 9

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Use of these materials

The University Archives operates in accordance with the State Public Records Act, with unrestricted access to records not covered by state and federal statutes and regulations.