Research partners receive full intellectual property rights:

• license-fee free and royalty free-to all work developed in the Laboratory during their sponsorship years. They have the opportunity to share in all of the Laboratory's intellectual property, license-fee free and royalty free.
• Affiliate sponsors share a limited access to intellectual property.
• Each sponsor is entitled to acquire non-exclusive licensing rights to all intellectual property that is conceived, developed, or reduced to practice.
• Non-sponsors are precluded from making use of the Laboratory's developments for at least two years after the filing of a patent or copyright.