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Intellectual Property/Results Section 9 39 JOINT IP PROVISIONS n Transfer – whether a participant can transfer its ownership of its share of the IP without the agreement of the other(s); n Licensing – whether a participant can license the IP without the agreement of the other(s); n Registration – how you will deal with decisions relating to the filing, registration and maintenance of any registrable IP (including payment of renewal fees); n Infringement – how you will deal with any infringement claims relating to the IP. If any Foreground IP which your research institution has created is to belong to another participant in the Research, then you might want to be able to claw back that IP if that other participant is not commercialising it or has not commercialised it within a specified period. Licences/Access Rights Research Contracts should set out whether the participants will have the right to see results generated by the others. These are often called 'access rights'. They do not give you the right to use those results in any way but simply a right to review them. Having reviewed them you might decide that you would like a licence to use them. Any such access rights will no doubt be governed by confidentiality provisions. Participants may need a licence to use the Background IP of others to carry out the research. They may also need a licence to use the Background IP of others to enable them to commercialise their own Foreground IP. Where you have retained ownership of your Foreground IP it may be that the other participants are to be given a licence to use that Foreground IP.