The Licensing and Technology Development office welcomes Julia M. Brill, Esq. as its new Copyright and Material Transfer Officer. Ms. Brill will join LTD on August 2nd and brings over 20 years of transactional experience reviewing, drafting, and negotiating multiple contracts. Previously, Ms. Brill has served as the Corporate Contract and Materials Transfer Officer at the University of Maryland - Baltimore in addition to serving as a sole practitioner and a senior attorney for the Johns Hopkins Health System.

Her arrival is welcomed especially by the Licensing Associates who have been working hard to fill the void to get these Agreements done in a timely manner on top of handling new disclosures, protecting the University's intellectual property, and negotiating License Agreements. JHU executes approximately 1,800 MTAs per year so this is no small feat!

On the surface these Agreements may seem small and easy, but in reality some are very difficult as future encumbrance issues need to be contemplated and mitigated. The last thing a recipient investigator wants is to have their intellectual property encumbered un-necessarily and not be able to fully participate in the benefits relating to tech transfer of their own hard work. MTAs are small but they can pack a punch!

To read additional articles on encumbrances see: Research Web Notes September 2003 and June 2004.

For more information relating to MTAs please go to www.ltd.jhu.edu "For Hopkins Inventors" then "Tangible Property and Material Transfers" and/or contact:

Nicole Leonard, Esq.
Associate Director, Licensing and Technology Development
nleonar3@jhmi.edu
410 516-6513