Dr. James Browne:

The individuals determine that themselves. If it is a team effort, its members determine who contributed what to the intellectual property, so they know themselves and tell the university that a piece of intellectual property is owned by, for the sake of argument, three colleagues, one of whom owns 50% while the other two own 20% and 30%, respectively. The team comes to the university with that statement. We do not make a judgement there. The university then decides whether the intellectual property is worth patenting. It then incurs the cost of patenting it if it thinks it is worth it. The patent is then available for exploitation.