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Are graduate or undergraduate students allowed to create patents without their advisor?

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Are graduate or undergraduate students allowed to create patents without their advisor?

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Yes. The legal definition of “inventor” defines who the creator of the patent is. Ordinarily, a graduate student or even undergraduate student may have been funded by the University or used University facilities to develop an inventive concept. In these cases, the invention is the property of the University.