Licensing & Contracts Admin

Title: Licensing & Contracts Admin

Employee Classification: Licensing & Contracts Admin

Campus: University of North Texas

Division: UNT-Research & Innovation

Sub Division-Department: UNT-Research & Innovation

Department: UNT-Innovation & Commercialization-190300

Job Location: Denton

Salary: Salary to commensurate with experience

FTE: 1.000000

Retirement Eligibility: TRS Eligible

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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.

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).

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.

• Ability to communicate effectively in both oral and written form with university faculty and staff, students, and the general public.
• 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.

Work experience in higher education.

Juris Doctorate degree (J.D.)

• 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 grants 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.,…