Non-Disclosure Agreement
Necessity of Concluding Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDA)
For industry-university cooperation, concluding Non-Disclosure Agreements is required in the following cases. Our intention to do so is to protect the intellectual property rights and to maintain trust.
- When both parties utilize research themes under organizational cooperation
- When a party discloses its own technology, trade secrets, or so on to the other party based on the assumption that they will conclude a research agreement but it will still take time to conclude actual agreement
- When holding technological exchange meetings and so forth under industry-university cooperation (except in the case of events under existing agreements)
An NDA will be dissolved when the actual research agreement is concluded.
Contract Signer
The teaching staff members are involved in representing the University and signing NDAs. This is because Tohoku University thinks that signing by the interested parties leads to the most effective execution of an NDA. On the company`s request, the head of the faculty or the executive vice president for research may sign an NDA.
NDA Form (Sample)
There are two types of NDAs: one-way and reciprocal. The followings are samples. Please use either of them as your needs.
Handling of Intellectual Property Rights
When an invention is created during research work under the concluded NDA, we will process that based on its NDA rueds/terms. As a general rule, we will negotiate to determine about sharing ownership of the rights, burdens of expenses for patent application, payment or non-payment of royalties and so on depending on the situation.