When do MTA's Apply?

Material Transfer Agreements (MTAs) are binding written contracts that govern the use of exchanged material

• Arising from research and is not controlled by an existing third party agreement
• Independently developed but assigned to UNH
• Developed under UNH funding or external funding

• Internally transferred among UNH entities
• Resulting from one's academic activities (such as a syllabus or course notes)
• Purchased
• Developed under Work for Hire (transfer to a contractee or contractor per an existing agreement)
• Transferred for diagnosis or testing
• Arising from research but controlled by a third party, such as an industrial contract
• Independently developed – no UNH resources were used to create the material and the material is not assigned to UNH

• Define and protect rights to innovations, intellectual property rights, and commercialization resulting from material
• Define and protect rights to improvements to material and/or inventions made using material
• Provide control over the distribution of material
• Ensure acknowledgment of UNH investigators in publications resulting from use of their material 

• Ensure recipients exercise care in handling material
• Ensure recipients follow relevant federal guidelines relating to recombinant DNA, protection of human subjects in research, and the use of animals.