Legal Restrictions on Distribution of MMRRC Materials

The MMRRC's holdings come under one of following mechanisms for distribution:

• MMRRC Conditions of Use (COU) (text only; user form is provided after order submission)
• Deltagen Standard Academic License Agreement
• Genentech Lexicon Agreement (New Version)
• Lexicon Simple Letter Agreement (New Version)
• Sanger Institute Gene Trap Resource (SIGTR) COU (text only; user form is provided after order submission.)
• MMRRC Sanger EUCOMM COU (text only; user form is provided after order submission.)

Instructions specific to each Agreement are in the individual documents. These Agreements specify the terms under which researchers obtain and use these research materials. In general, the Agreements:

• confirm that intellectual property rights remain with the donating investigator or their institution
• do not supercede any patents or other intellectual property rights of third parties
• do not allow further redistribution of materials or derived materials to other researchers outside the recipient's institution. Where allowed by the Agreement, transfers within the recipient institution imply acceptance of the Agreement by intra-mural colleagues.

There are two categories of legal restrictions on the distribution of MMRRC stocks: patents and donor's restriction to limit distribution to non-profit and academic research institutions.

Patents

It is the responsibility of the recipient investigator and their institution to obtain any licenses or permissions required for the use or transfer of the requested materials.

Non-Profit Only Distribution

On the Donor MTA, the investigator or their institution may elect to limit distribution only to non-profit entities. This is the only restriction the MMRRC allows donors to place on the distribution of their strains; if the election is specified, the MMRRC is bound to honor it unless the donor institution executes a new Donor MTA without the limitation elected.