Materials on intellectual property are presented to help university research administrators negotiate and administer sponsored research agreements. The nine units cover: patents and patent rights, patent rights under government contracts, university patent policies and practices, patent clauses in industrial research agreements, patent licensing agreements, the law of copyrights, university copyright policies, copyright clauses in industrial research agreements, and software licensing agreements. Specific topics include: patentable subject matter, patent applications, government rights in patents, the acquisition of federal rights in an invention made possible in part by federal funds, patent rights under government contracts, college patent policy, administration and development of inventions, inventions under sponsored research programs, inventions disclosure, licensing agreements, university copyright policies, and the 1978 copyright law. Included are the text from the Federal Register on patent rules and regulations, a Copyright Office circular, a section of the United States Code on copyrights, guidelines to help colleges develop copyright policies, and a sample software license agreement. (SW)