The University of Texas at Arlington is an agency of the U.S. state of Texas and a sub-institution of the University of Texas system administered by the UT Board of Regents. All agreements, including sponsored research agreements and related contractual agreements such as visiting researcher agreements, non-disclosure agreements, team agreements, material transfer agreements, etc., must be signed by an authorized UTA official and under the legal name of the university: ”The University of Texas at Arlington”. In accordance with federal regulations, all faculty members registered as principal investigators for a sponsored project must make some level of effort for that project to ensure the necessary oversight and administration. For more information on effort, see Policy 1316 Commitment to Effort: Management of Effort Associated with Sponsored Projects Subject to these guidelines and applicable law, a proponent may own research projects or services that may be used in its sole discretion. Preliminary discussions about a proposed sponsored project can begin long before an industry partner is ready to launch an RAS. However, before the OIE can create an RAS project, the project`s Principal Investigator (PI) must first submit a project proposal to the OIE for review and approval. A proposal must contain at least a service description, a project budget and a budget justification. Additional information and documentation may be requested during the application review process. If the proponent and the PI wish to proceed with the proposed project, a draft MRA will be prepared that includes the approved RFP and budget as well as the agreed funding amount, payment plan and intellectual property known to the NPs/co-IPs. Can a sponsor approve publications that result from the research? Penn State understands that different industry sponsors have different payment and intellectual property (IP) needs. Penn State researchers also have different backgrounds and interests. Thus, Penn State has developed a menu of options to serve a variety of contractual arrangements.

In addition, certain contractual conditions are often used between private institutions that simply do not apply to us as a public university. We have to negotiate certain conditions, which can lead to a delay. Terms such as: The use of certain research papers requires compliance with federal laws and Stanford guidelines. If the material is: The research agreement is a legal document that details the obligations of two or more parties in connection with a research or service project. It often has certain outcomes and milestones to meet and dictates how the parties will interact with each other, including payment and topics such as advertising, publication, and intellectual property (such as copyrights, inventions, or patents). Agreements may be referred to by various names – sponsored research agreement, service contract, sub-price or letter of agreement. The University of Texas at Arlington is not a UTA PI, but the contracting party in terms of formal contracts. This means that all contracts must be reviewed and accepted by the institution and not by the individual faculties. Each agreement contains conditions that must be carefully considered before being accepted. While UTA policy and state law provide general guidance in terms of acceptable terms, the type of project proposed and the type of sponsor will ultimately determine how an agreement is drafted and which office can review it. The University of Texas at Arlington has introduced several standard formats for research agreements that comply with state law and national standards, such as those of the UIDP.

UT Arlington owns the intellectual property that we create for legal and tax reasons in connection with sponsored research projects. First, UTA is part of a public university system funded in part by Texas state taxpayers. Our regents retain ownership of all inventions and discoveries arising from UTA research with UTA resources. Since UTA is a non-profit organisation that finances research institutions through the issuance of tax-exempt bonds, UTA is required by law to ensure that bond-financed facilities are not used in a way that would result in interest liability. IrS regulations provide specific guidelines to prevent private companies from using facilities funded by tax-free obligations in sponsored research agreements, and UTA follows them. Note that companies that sponsor research may receive intellectual property rights in the form of a temporary option for a license. In addition, a promoter may receive an automatic concession of the intellectual property right created for a specific funded project and limited to internal research use. See Section 8 of the Model Sponsored Research Agreements, which can be found here. A sponsor may agree to use the university`s standard SRA (Cost Rebursable) or a university standard SRA (fixed price). In other cases, the parties may find it advantageous to develop negotiated key terms. However, the university, as the state authority of Texas, has certain restrictions on the applicability of certain contractual terms. Interested parties can learn more about university-sponsored research by reading the Principles and Policies Guide for Sponsored Activities.

The faculty of the College of Agricultural Sciences is also subject to special rules due to the receipt of formula funds from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The Faculty of Agricultural Sciences should contact its Grants and Contracts Office to determine if it can use the Sponsored Research Agreement – Agricultural Science Version or any of the other contract templates listed below. • Intellectual property. These delays are often resolved by explaining our legal restrictions that govern the intellectual property rights generated by sponsored research. OSP encourages principal investigators to send Yale`s SRA model with the proposal. However, if the proponent submits an agreement, PSO will enter into negotiations to inform the principal investigator of any concerns. In general, SRAs include/address the following: A proponent retains ownership rights in its own contributions to jointly developed results and joint work resulting from or resulting from a research project, naturally under applicable U.S. patent law. In addition, UT Arlington grants each research sponsor the opportunity to negotiate an exclusive or non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-based license to manufacture, use or sell an invention or discovery that is wholly or partially owned by UT Arlington and that is manufactured or designed and reduced to practice during the sponsored research. Principal investigators and potential private sponsors can contact the OIE for more information on research projects funded at the university. Usually, no, with some specific exceptions for confidential information provided by a sponsor and patentable inventions.

According to the usual practice of universities and industries expressed in UIDP Contractual Agreement 3, Publications, universities conduct research as tax-exempt organizations. Research carried out by tax-exempt bodies must be carried out in the interest of the general public and lead to information that is published and accessible to the interested public. Research subject to publication restrictions may be considered private business or private commercial activity that has nothing to do with the public purpose of the university, and the secrecy of the results could violate applicable law. In other words, sponsors have the right to request the removal of confidential sponsor information disclosed to the university during sponsored research. Upon request, an additional delay in publication, which is specific and limited, may be appropriate to allow time to file a patent application for inventions that result directly from the original and creative research work of the UT Arlington Faculty. Penn State maintains both a sponsored refund seeking agreement and a fixed-price sponsored research agreement. Other models are available to control other approaches to IP management. The fixed-price version of the agreement is generally recommended for small projects. If you would like to use the fixed-price agreement for a project over $100,000, please contact OSP first. When you submit a refund agreement, you usually need to create a detailed budget. Please DO NOT provide a detailed budget to the Sponsor when using the Fixed Price Agreement, as there is no obligation to provide financial reports or other budget details in support of these Agreements.

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