Co-operative Education for Enterprise Development (CEED)

CEED projects are small-scale, but a proper working arrangement is still vital. A Standard Project Agreement (download) provides a functional framework and covers the particular issues which arise due to the rather unusual combination of parties in CEED projects. Confidentiality is a standard component of this.

The Standard Project Agreement allows you to select one of two options for Project Intellectual Property (Project IP). When you propose a CEED project, you can opt for the normal arrangement where you share Project IP (50:50) with the university, or you can opt to pay a surcharge and own 100% of Project IP (see CEED Fees). Please note that commercial use of "Background Technology" is not covered in either of these options.

When you propose a CEED project (see Project Proposal Form), you agree to accept the terms of this Standard CEED Project Agreement.

If you undertake CEED projects on a regular basis, you may prefer to have a single header agreement instead. Please contact the CEED Office if you would like to discuss this.

To download The Standard CEED Project Agreement, please click on the .pdf below.

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_{Definitions from Standard Project
Agreement}

_{"Agreement" means this CEED
Program Standard Project Agreement.}

_{"Background
Technology" means any patent or other intellectual property
right or any confidential information of a Party, including
functional software for which a Party owns the intellectual
property rights and makes the software available for the
Project, but excludes any intellectual property developed
during the Project ("Project IP").}

_{"Intellectual Property" shall
refer to rights in recorded ideas, inventions, techniques, and
other discoveries arising from research conducted by the
Parties or the Students pursuant to this Agreement which may,
without limiting the generality of the above, include
any:}

_{a) invention or discovery; manner, method or process of
manufacture; method or principle of construction; computer
program; database; algorithm; integrated circuit; circuit
layout or semiconductor chip layout or design; plan, drawing or
design; or scientific, technical or engineering information or
document;}

_{b) improvement, modification or development of any of the
foregoing;}
_{c) patent, application for a patent, right to apply for
a patent or similar rights either generally or for or in
respect of anything referred to in paragraph (a) or
(b);}

_{d) trade secret, know-how, confidential information or
right of secrecy or confidentiality in respect of any
information or document or other intellectual property either
generally or referred to in paragraph (a) or (b);}

_{e) copyright or other rights in the nature of copyright
subsisting in any works either generally or in the subject
matter referred to in paragraph (a) or (b);}

_{f) eligible layout rights
or other rights in any integrated circuit, circuit layout or
semiconductor chip layout or design either generally or in
respect of anything referred to in paragraph (a) or
(b);}

_{g) unregistered design,
registered design, application for registration of a design,
right to apply for registration of a design or similar rights
either generally or for or in respect of any work referred to
in paragraph (a) or (b);}

_{h) trade mark (whether registered or unregistered) or
plant variety right or the right to apply for registration of
them, either generally or in respect of anything referred to in
paragraph (a) or (b);}
_{i) intellectual property in addition to the above which
falls within the definition of intellectual property rights
contained in Article 2 of the World Intellectual Property
Organisation Convention of July 1967 hether in Australia or
elsewhere in the world.}

_{"Parties" or "Party" means
any or all of UWA, Enterprise or their successors and permitted
assigns, and includes their employees, sub-contractors, agents
and, where context permits, Students.}

_{"CEED Project" means the project outlined in the CEED
project proposal and as further set out in the Project Brief and
signed by the Students and those supervising them on behalf of
the Parties.

"Project IP" means any Intellectual Property that is created or
arises as a result of the individual or joint activity of the
Parties, their employees, contractors or agents in conducting the
CEED Project. Contributions to the Project IP by the Students
shall be treated as contributions by UWA.}

_{"Semester" means the formal periods of study as published
annually by UWA.

"Students " means the student or students engaged to or who work
on the CEED Project.}

_{To view previous versions of the CEED Project Agreement,
please click here.}

CEED Standard Project Agreement