Technology transfer agreements

POSCO Power is the exclusive supplier of MCFC systems in Korea under a technology transfer agreement with FCE it has just completed the constraction of its FC stack manufacturing plant in the city of Pohang. The facility now has the capacity to produce 100 MW worth of MCFC stacks annually and the complex has installed a 2.4 MW FC power plant... 

Licensing is a source of income and also controls the extent of technology transfer. The purchaser of technology is restricted from passing information to third parties about the catalyst or process in most license agreements. 

There is a licensing agreement through MRC Technology Transfer Group, 20 Park Crescent, London, UK. 

Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADA) A formal agreement between a Federal laboratory and anon-Federal party (individual, university, or private firm) in which the non-Federal party provides resources in exchange for exclusive rights to license patents that result from the collaboration. Congress gave Federal laboratories the authority to enter into CRADAs as part of the Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-502). 

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration, Office of Technology Transfer, Patent Policy Board, Materials Transfer Agreement (Bethesda, MD National Institutes of Health, May 22, 1989). 

A written form requesting use of tissue from the biorepository should be available. The written request must include biologies requested, preservation methods, donor criteria, and evidence of institutional approval for the proposed use. A committee that operates from written procedures should review requests. An end-user agreement is used for distribution of approved tissues to end users. A Master Materials Transfer Agreement housed at the Association of University Technology Transfer Managers is a helpful reference document for this purpose (32) (see Note 17). 

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