Beverly:

Do not accept that language.  Their claim that Universitys have accept this
language in the past is not true in the majority of instances.  Ask them to
give you the names of who has accepted it, and I promise you, they will
start to back down.  Stick to your guns on this one.

Audrey

At 02:47 PM 05/15/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I am negotiating an Academic Partnerships Master Agreement with Delphi
>Automotive Systems and am having a problem with their inventions language.
>In the agreement they will pay for a patent if they want one but want us to
>grant them "an irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive license and right to
>make, have made, reproduce, use, sell, and offer to sell all University
>Inventions without additional royalty or payments." We would normally only
>grant a non-exclusive licence for research purposes only. They claim a
>number of other institutions have accepted their agreement as is without
>negotiation.  Has anyone out there had experience with Delphi? Did you
>accept their invention language? If so, how where you able to do that?
>
>Please feel free to respond to me directly by the phone number below or my
>e-mail.
>
>Thanks!
>
>
>Beverly A.Blakeney
>Assistant Director
>Office of Sponsored Programs
>University of Vermont
>340 Waterman Building
>Burlington, VT 05405
>Phone 802-656-3360/ Fax 802-656-1326
>
>
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