Intellectual Property Agreements

If you’re an OHSU employee who needs to establish an agreement related to intellectual property, please contact OHSU Technology Transfer at techmgmt@ohsu.edu .

Questions regarding material transfer agreements (MTAs), industry sponsored research agreements, research service agreements, collaboration agreements and data use agreements should be sent to the OHSU Office of Proposal Award and Management, or OPAM, at mta@ohsu.edu .

If you're an OHSU employee looking to disclose a new technology, visit OHSU Innovators or contacttechmgmt@ohsu.edu.

If you're interested in starting a collaboration or partnership with OHSU, visit the Collaborations page. 

Other agreements

OHSU Technology Transfer can assist with the negotiation and execution of Non-Disclosure Agreements, or NDAs, related to OHSU intellectual property. An NDA is a contract between two or more parties that outlines confidential material, knowledge, or information that the parties (one or both) wish to share with one another for certain purposes, but wish to restrict access to, or by, other parties. The NDA is synonymous with a Confidentiality Agreement or Confidential Disclosure Agreement (CDA).

Information needed to complete an NDA includes:

  • Scope of work and/or description of purpose
  • Contact information for other party — investigator or legal/business development
  • Proposed date of discussions

OHSU is not responsible for negotiating or reviewing Consulting Agreements on behalf of OHSU faculty and staff. Consulting guidelines are covered in the Outside Activity/Outside Compensation portion of the Conflicts of Interest and Commitment policy.

For additional information, visit the Conflicts of interest & commitment table of contents page on O2. (Note: requires OHSU sign in)

Faculty are also advised that personal consulting agreements may result in conflict of interest situations with their university employment and, as such, must be disclosed to their respective Department Chair.

OHSU Technology Transfer recommends adding the following statement to any consulting agreement that you enter into: "Consultant is an employee of Oregon Health & Science University and has responsibilities and research projects resulting from their activities as such an employee. Not withstanding any other provisions in this Agreement, the Company shall not have any rights to any work product, intellectual property and/or other works or materials created by Consultant as a result of employment with Oregon Health & Science University."