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CPES welcomes EATON as a Principal Member!

Feb 20, 2018


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CPES welcomes EATON, a power management company since 1911, to our Industry Consortium as a Principal Member! As a Principal Member, EATON will gain privileged access to CPES intellectual properties via the CPES Intellectual Property Protection Fund, plus other benefits such as access to CPES research results, researchers, and facilities, technical exchanges, and continuing education opportunities.

The IPPF is a unique IP access mechanism that provides extraordinary IP advantage to all Principal-level members. IPPF is available automatically, at no additional cost, to Principal Plus and Principal members. IPPF members meet quarterly via telecon with inventors to discuss invention disclosures and jointly decide which technologies to protect, with patenting costs covered by IPPF. Once a technology is protected, IPPF members are granted a royalty-free, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the technology. IPPF is applicable only to technologies developed by CPES-VT researchers under the CPES industry consortium.

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