Webinar
Join Attain Partners for a live session hosted by the Society of Research Administrators International (SRAI)
Tuesday, November 18, 2025 | 2p – 3p ET
Universities spend a lot of resources managing intellectual property through their research administration, tech transfer, and legal resources.
This session aims to illuminate appropriate intellectual property paradigms by agreement type, helping attendees understand the intellectual property rights applicable to the nature of the relationship and when to escalate to legal or technical transfer.
Agreement types we will review include:
- Corporate-sponsored research
- Federal contracts and federal grants
- Clinical trials (both industry-sponsored and investigator-initiated)Sp
- Non-profit grants and subawards
- Service agreements (incoming/outgoing)
- Confidential disclosure agreements (CDAs)
- Material use agreements (MUAs)
- Data use agreements (DUAs)
For each agreement type, we will examine solutions that encompass staying silent on intellectual property, assignment of ownership, non-exclusive/exclusive licenses, including field limitation options, internal licenses, and options for commercial licenses. When examining these options, we will provide a matrix outlining the triggers for escalation to tech transfer/legal.
Meet the Speakers
Istvan Fekete
Principal, Attain Partners
Janette Hannam Hayes
Emory University
