*Please note that most Lab employees do not have the authority to sign agreements
Type of Agreement |
Primary Office |
| Consortium Agreements | Strategic Partnerships Office – SPO@lbl.gov |
| Consulting Agreements (for Lab employees to personally provide consulting with an outside entity) | Research Compliance Office – RCO@lbl.gov |
| Data Use Agreements (can go by different names) Data out, orData in, often involves purchase of data through Procurement |
Intellectual Property Office – ndas-and-mtas@lbl.gov |
| Material Transfer Agreements (MTA) for non-commercially available material provided without fee,for commercially available material requiring an MTA as a condition of purchase,some types of proprietary equipment or instruments |
Intellectual Property Office – ndas-and-mtas@lbl.gov |
| Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) | Office of Lab Counsel – OLC@lbl.gov |
| Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) | Intellectual Property Office – ndas-and-mtas@lbl.gov |
| Patent license agreements for the out-licensing of LBNL-created technology | Intellectual Property Office – IPO@lbl.gov |
| Permission to use data | Intellectual Property Office – IPO@lbl.gov |
| Permission to use user facility name or logo | Individual facility decision |
| Permission to use Berkeley Lab name or logo by a patent licensee | Intellectual Property Office – IPO@lbl.gov |
| Permission to use Berkeley Lab name or logo by a non-licensee party | Strategic Communications – communications@lbl.gov |
| Permission to Use Images, Images of people, Text or Similar Copyrighted Materials (not including software or data) | Intellectual Property Office – copyright@lbl.gov |
| Research Agreement (for Lab to perform research for or with an external party) | Strategic Partnerships Office – SPO@lbl.gov |
| Research Agreement (for Lab to purchase research services from an external party) | Procurement – procurementhelp@lbl.gov |
| Software License Agreements associated with purchases coming into the Lab, including software evaluation licenses associated with a potential future purchase | Procurement – procurementhelp@lbl.gov |
| Software License Agreements, including software license agreements for third party use of LBNL-created software and incoming software not associated with any potential future purchase | Intellectual Property Office – IPO@lbl.gov |
| Sponsored Research and CRADA Agreements | Strategic Partnerships Office – SPO@lbl.gov |
| User Agreements | Strategic Partnerships Office – SPO@lbl.gov |
