Academic inventions can also give rise to problems. Bodies which fund academic research, such as charitable foundations, may stipulate as a condition of funding that ownership of inventions arising from the research will vest in them, or at least that they cannot be exploited without their consent.
Assigning your intellectual property – copyrights
Whilst a copyright need not be registered in the UK, individual’s or businesses who wish to safeguard the purchase/ transfer of their copyrighted works can