Overview
Licensing & Contracts Admin Jobs in Denton, USA at University of North Texas System
Title: Licensing & Contracts Admin
Employee Classification: Licensing & Contracts Admin
Campus: University of North Texas, Denton
Division: UNT-Research & Innovation
Department: UNT-Innovation & Commercialization-190300
Job Location: Denton
Salary: Salary to commensurate with experience
FTE: 1.000000
Retirement Eligibility: TRS Eligible
Department Summary
The Innovation and Commercialization unit within the Division of Research & Innovation empowers researchers to transform discoveries into products, services, and companies. The team provides university researchers with services to support navigating the intellectual property and patent processes, development of licensing agreements with strategic industry partners, mentorship in creating startups and pursuing entrepreneurship, and administering commercialization education programs that help forge paths from academic innovation to real-world application.
Position Overview
The Licensing & Contracts Administrator position supports operations across the Innovation & Commercialization and Research Contracting units, within the Division of Research & Innovation, to provide legal expertise and execution of contracts involving intellectual property, research-related agreements, and industry partnerships. Position duties include executing research contracts with intellectual property agreements and licensing technology contracts; developing guidance for the protection of intellectual property;
providing expertise in revenue generation avenues for UNT and inventors; developing startup companies; and executing contracts for engagement between university researchers and external partners in the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem (e.g. space lease agreements).
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering, law, or a related field, and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree, with three years of experience in technology transfer, intellectual property law, research commercialization, or startup companies; or any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
Knowledge,
Skills and Abilities
- Ability to communicate effectively in both oral and written form with university faculty and staff, students, and the general public. Skills to support the service to faculty and student inventors.
- Expert knowledge in negotiating and executing legal contracts involving technology transfer and intellectual property to maintain compliance with all applicable local, state, and federal laws and regulations.
- Demonstrated ability to work as part of a team and to build relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to effectively manage multiple projects at once.
Preferred Qualifications
Work experience in higher education.
Required License/Registration/Certifications
Juris Doctorate degree (J.D.)
Job Duties
- Develops and executes legal contracts for Intellectual Property Agreements, including:
- Invention Disclosure Agreements to document and assign rights for inventions created by UNT personnel.
- License Agreements to execute the core agreement terms that grant companies the right to develop, market, and sell intellectual property owned by UNT (patents, software, designs) in exchange for fees/royalties.
- Option Agreements to grant a company an exclusive, time‑limited right to evaluate an invention before committing itself to a full license.
- Assignment Agreements to transfer ownership of IP from one party to another.
- Develops and executes legal contracts for Research-Related Agreements, including:
- Material Transfer Agreements (MTAs) governing the exchange of tangible research materials (e.g., cells, antibodies, software) between institutions or companies for research purposes.
- Data Transfer Agreements (DTAs/DUAs) to manage the sharing of research data between entities.
- Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) / Confidential Disclosure Agreements (CDAs) to provide legal protection to allow potential partners to review confidential IP information about an invention without revealing it publicly.
- Employee/Student IP Agreements defining ownership and revenue-sharing terms for IP created by UNT personnel.
- Inter-Institutional Agreements (IIAs) managing the…
Title: Licensing & Contracts Admin
Company: University of North Texas System
Location: Denton, USA
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