In a proposed agreement, “hardware” can be defined to include confidential information about the material as well as the forms of material that may result from replication and maintenance in the receiving laboratory (descendants, derivatives). The recipient may not be able to pursue a research application due to the abandonment of ownership of the research results. 9 Outbound MTA if the intellectual property transferred to WARF is identified as intellectual property that is part of a patent pending or granted under the management of WARF or that is assigned to WARF as “biological material”, follow the WARF guidelines for the required material transfer agreement: 19 Data Ownership In accordance with the UW Directive, no agreement is concluded with a non-academic sponsor, allowing the transfer of ownership of the data. (This is not the case for proprietary data that originally belonged to a sponsor.) The hardware vendor may obtain a copy of the UW data for internal research and development purposes or a copy of the data in the context of the report. 18 Concern: Obligations to Sponsors SupportIng when the material provider does not fund the research in most cases, the university must ensure that its intellectual property obligations to the sponsors funding the work do not conflict with the proposed obligations to the material supplier. . . .