Define: Background
information, data, techniques, Know-how, inventions, software, discoveries and materials (regardless of the form or medium in which they are disclosed or stored) which are provided by one Party (whether belonging to that Party or to a third party) to the other Party for use in the Project, and whether before or after the date of this Agreement, except any Result;
information, data, techniques, Know-how, inventions, discoveries, software and materials (regardless of the form or medium in which they are disclosed or stored) which are provided by one Party (whether belonging to that Party or to a third party) to the other Party for use in the Project, and whether before or after the date of this Agreement, except any Result;.
Relevant Circumstances
- When pre-existing IP is brought into a research collaboration
- If background IP is treated separately from results created during the project
- Where licence-back terms allow project use of background IP only