Are the special intellectual property terms available for the recipient institution to review in advance of the scientists request for the materials?
Intellectual property terms differ on a plasmid by plasmid basis. Most of our plasmids do not have any intellectual property issues, and therefore, will be covered by out Standard Plasmid Transfer Agreement. If there are intellectual property issues for particular plasmids, we will not use this expedited process. Rather, we will send you our standard plasmid transfer agreement with either an addendum or letter to be signed that covers the terms for the intellectual property found within that plasmid. We are acutely aware of third party materials, and we will not distribute any materials that have IP issues under this pre-approved MTA. If there are additional terms required by these third parties, we will distribute these materials in the “old” way by sending the researcher the MTA to be processed by the Technology Transfer Office. However, in our collection of over 100,000 plasmids only a small percentage (<5%) have additional terms for their distribution (hence why we have initiated t
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