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Agreement

Agreement

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Agreement

" found within legal contracts contributed to The Genie Community.

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The most popular definition of '

Agreement

' is:

this document, the Grant Offer Letter and the Proposal and this document's Schedules, each as amended from time to time in accordance with clause 10.8;

Collaboration Agreement 6 (institution has research rights only)

Each of the 7 model research collaboration agreements from the Lambert Toolkit have a different approach on who can exploit the intellectual property from a project. In this particular agreement, agreement 6, the Institution has the right to use IP for academic and research purposes.

Note: This collaboration agreement doesn't deal with joint ownership of intellectual property. For examples of joint ownership clauses, when 2 or more parties are collaborating, search Genie or Google for model consortium agreements Collaborator may negotiate for an assignment of some Institution IP

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The 2nd most popular definition of '

Agreement

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this document, including its Schedules, as amended from time to time in accordance with clause 10.8;

Collaboration Agreement 4A (mutual IP assignment)

Each of the 7 model research collaboration agreements from the Lambert Toolkit have a different approach on who can exploit the intellectual property from a project. In this particular agreement, agreement 4A, each party has the right to exploit certain results created during the project and takes assignment of those results. The Institution has right to use for academic and research purposed, and the Collaborator for research purposes.

Note: This collaboration agreement doesn't deal with joint ownership of intellectual property. For examples of joint ownership clauses, when 2 or more parties are collaborating, search Genie or Google for model consortium agreements Collaborator may negotiate for an assignment of some Institution IP

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Collaboration Agreement 3 (negotiate IP assignment)

Each of the 7 model research collaboration agreements from the Lambert Toolkit have a different approach on who can exploit the intellectual property from a project. In this particular agreement, agreement 3, Collaborator may negotiate for an assignment of some Institution IP.

Note: This collaboration agreement doesn't deal with joint ownership of intellectual property. For examples of joint ownership clauses, when 2 or more parties are collaborating, search Genie or Google for model consortium agreements Collaborator may negotiate for an assignment of some Institution IP.

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Collaboration Agreement 2 (negotiate IP license)

Each of the 7 model research collaboration agreements from the Lambert Toolkit have a different approach on who can exploit the intellectual property from a project. In this particular agreement, agreement 2, the collaborator may negotiate further license to some or all of the Insitution IP rights.

Note: This collaboration agreement doesn't deal with joint ownership of intellectual property. For examples of joint ownership clauses, when 2 or more parties are collaborating, search Genie or Google for model consortium agreements

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Collaboration Agreement 1 (non-exclusive rights)

Each of the 7 model research collaboration agreements from the Lambert Toolkit have a different approach on who can exploit the intellectual property from a project. In this particular agreement, agreement 1, the collaborator has non-exclusive rights to use in a specified field/territory. There are no sub-licences.

Note: This collaboration agreement doesn't deal with joint ownership of intellectual property. For examples of joint ownership clauses, when 2 or more parties are collaborating, search Genie or Google for model consortium agreements.

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Collaboration Agreement 4 (non-commercial rights)

Each of the 7 model research collaboration agreements from the Lambert Toolkit have a different approach on who can exploit the intellectual property from a project. In this particular agreement, agreement 4, the Institution has the right to use IP for non-commercial purposes.

Note: This collaboration agreement doesn't deal with joint ownership of intellectual property. For examples of joint ownership clauses, when 2 or more parties are collaborating, search Genie or Google for model consortium agreements Collaborator may negotiate for an assignment of some Institution IP.

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The 3rd most popular definition of '

Agreement

' is:

this document, including its Schedules, as amended from time to time in accordance with clause 9.8;

Collaboration Agreement 5 (contract research, restricted publication)

Each of the 7 model research collaboration agreements from the Lambert Toolkit have a different approach on who can exploit the intellectual property from a project. In this particular agreement, agreement 5, there can be no publication by the Institution without the Collaborator’s permission.

Note: This collaboration agreement doesn't deal with joint ownership of intellectual property. For examples of joint ownership clauses, when 2 or more parties are collaborating, search Genie or Google for model consortium agreements Collaborator may negotiate for an assignment of some Institution IP

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The 4th most popular definition of '

Agreement

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this document including its Schedule, as amended from time to time in accordance with clause 9.9;

Sample Patent Knowhow License (Lambert)

This sort of licence might be used where a Sponsor and University have reached an agreement under Lambert Model Agreement 2 where the Sponsor should be granted an exclusive licence to use identified IP in the results of research collaboration.

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Sample Materials Transfer Agreement (Lambert)

This sort of agreement might be used when a company has agreed to allow an academic, institution or industrial partner to use certain materials in connection with a research project.

This agreement in particular provides for the University owning the IP in the Results, but assigning the IP in any Improvements to the Company. It follows the scheme of Lambert Model Agreement 1, with the Company being granted a non-exclusive right to use the Results.  (Unlike Lambert Model Agreement 1, the Results are defined in this form of Materials Transfer Agreement as the results arising from the use of the Materials (and not the results of the collaborative research project as a whole).

The University and the Company might, depending on the circumstances, follow the scheme of Lambert Model Agreement 2 or 3, giving the Company the opportunity to negotiate an exclusive licence or an assignment of the IP in specific Results, or Lambert Model Agreement 4 or 5, giving the Company ownership of the IP in the Results.

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The 5th most popular definition of '

Agreement

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this document including its Schedule, as amended from time to time in accordance with clause 6.9;

Sample Equipment Loan Agreement (Lambert)

This sort of agreement might be used if a company has agreed to allow a academic, institutional, or industrial partner to use equipment in connection with a research project. This particular agreement is written as if a university will be taking delivery of the equipment to enable a principle investigator to use in relation to a research project.

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