Commercial Venture Sample Clauses

Commercial Venture. A Commercial Venture shall mean a start-up company, limited partnership, joint venture, or any other entity that has obtained a License to a Division’s technology that involves equity. Ownership of a company’s stock by the University in the endowment investment pool (EIP) will not alone define the company as a Commercial Venture. Copyright: Works of authorship in any tangible medium of expression can be copyrighted. Copyright does not protect mere ideas; it is the reproduction of the particular expression of the idea that receives protection by the federal statute known as the 1976 Copyright Act. A copyright gives an author or creator of an original expression (or in certain instances, the author’s employer) the exclusive right to reproduce such expression; to distribute the expression (the right to control the first sale of an embodiment of a copyright); to display the original embodiment; and to prepare derivative works. To establish copyright it is necessary, prior to first Publication, to xxxx the work with the copyright symbol, (c), as well as the date and the name of the copyright owner. Equity or Equity shares: Equity or equity shares shall mean shares of common or preferred stock, warrants, options, convertible instruments, units of a limited partnership, or any other instrument conveying ownership interest in a Commercial Venture.