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Terms Accounting for Third Party Rights


* Please note that this list is non-exhaustive and agreements listed are subject to change.

Find an overview of our terms below:

Ancillary Agreements

Many of Addgene’s materials contain technologies that are owned and/or licensed by third parties. Materials containing the technologies described below may require the recipient to agree to certain terms in addition to the terms of the Material Transfer Agreement.

Cellecta Lentiviral Pooled Plasmids and Packaged shRNA Libraries

For plasmids containing Cellecta's lentiviral technologies and/or packaged shRNA libraries, please see the Lentiviral Pooled Plasmid and Packaged shRNA Libraries Ancillary Agreement.

Cre-ERT2 Containing Plasmids

For plasmids containing the Cre-ERT2 construct, designed by the Institut de Genetique et de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire GIE-CERBM (IGBMC), please see the IGBMC Cre-ERT2 Ancillary Agreement.

dCas9 Containing Plasmids

For plasmids containing the dCas9 technology developed at Duke University, please see the dCas9 Ancillary Agreement.

DNA Polymerase B Containing Plasmids

For plasmids containing DNA Polymerase B developed at the University of Pittsburgh, please see the PoIB Ancillary Agreement.

Fluorescent Proteins

The University of California, Stanford University, University of Oregon, Vanderbilt University, and several other institutions are owners of issued or pending patents covering certain fluorescent proteins such as GFP, EGFP, mRFP, mCherry, Cerulean and derivatives. These institutions acknowledge and/or consent to Addgene's distribution of plasmids containing these fluorescent proteins to academic and nonprofit research laboratories for non-commercial research use. See UCSD's notice on EGFP and Vanderbilt University's notice on Cerulean.

genOway FLEX Technology

For materials containing FLEX technology owned by genOway, please see the genOway Notice of Rights.

iRE1 cDNA Containing Plasmids

For plasmids containing iRE1 cDNA, which is the property of the Regents of the University of Michigan and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, please see the IRE1 Ancillary Agreement.

Nolan Lab

For plasmids that were developed in the Nolan Lab at Stanford University, please see the Nolan Ancillary Agreement.

Penn Ancillary Agreement for certain AAV Serotypes

For certain viral services making use of certain serotypes owned and developed at the University of Pennsylvania, please see the Ancillary Agreement for Penn Vectors.

Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute

For plasmids that were developed at the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, please see the Sanford-Burnham Ancillary Agreement.

Sangamo Zinc-Finger Technologies

For plasmids consisting of the zinc-finger technologies owned by Sangamo BioSciences, Inc., please see the Sangamo Zinc-Finger Agreement.

Second Generation Tet Promoter

For plasmids containing a second generation Tet Promoter developed at the University of Pittsburgh, please see the Pittsburgh 2nd Gen. Tet Promoter Ancillary Agreement.

Limited Use Label Licenses

Many of Addgene’s materials contain technologies that are owned and/or licensed by third parties. The licenses listed below must be read and acknowledged by the recipient scientist prior to use of the material described below.

Agilent Oligo Pools

For use of Cellecta shRNA libraries comprising Oligo Pools, please see the Agilent Oligo Pools End User Label License (The recipient scientist must acknowledge this LULL to receive material; the recipient institution signature is not required).

Allele Biotechnologies - mNeonGreen

For use of plasmids containing the fluorescent protein mNeonGreen, please see the mNeonGreen Label License (The recipient scientist must acknowledge this LULL to receive material; the recipient institution signature is not required).

Cellecta Lentiviral Pooled Plasmids and Packaged shRNA Libraries

For plasmids containing Cellecta's lentiviral technologies and/or packaged shRNA libraries, please see the Cellecta Lentiviral Pooled Plasmids and Packaged shRNA Libraries Limited Use Label License (The recipient scientist must acknowledge this LULL to receive material; the recipient institution signature is not required).

Cellectis Tal Nuclease

For plasmids containing the TAL Nuclease which has been exclusively licensed to Cellectis, please see the Cellectis Limited Use Label License (The recipient scientist must acknowledge this LULL to receive material; the recipient institution signature is not required).

DNA 2.0 Derived Plasmids

For plasmids derived from or created through DNA 2.0. please see the DNA 2.0 Limited Use Label License (The recipient scientist must acknowledge this LULL to receive material; the recipient institution signature is not required).

EMD Millipore and Brookhaven National Laboratory T7 Expression System

For plasmids containing EMD Millipore/Brookhaven pET or pTriEx Materials sold and/or owned by EMD Millipore/Brookhaven, please see EMD Millipore/Brookhaven pET LULL and/or EMD Millipore/Brookhaven pTriEx LULL, respectively (The recipient scientist must acknowledge this LULL to receive material; the recipient institution signature is not required).

Evrogen Fluorescent Proteins

For plasmids containing fluorophores from Evrogen JSC, please see the Evrogen Limited Use Label License for FPs (The recipient scientist must acknowledge this LULL to receive material; the recipient institution signature is not required).

Hera Testing Laboratories, Inc. Limited Use Label License

For plasmids containing the piggyBac transposon, which has been exclusively licensed to Hera Testing Laboratories, Inc. (formerly Transposagen Biopharmaceuticals), please see piggyBac Limited Use Label License (the recipient scientist must acknowledge this LULL to receive material; the recipient institution signature is not required).

Institut Pasteur Label License for cPPT

For plasmids containing certain cPPT sequences, which are the property of the Institut Pasteur, please see the Label License for cPPT.

Invitrogen GatewayTM Technology

For plasmids containing the GatewayTM technology from Invitrogen, please note that the purchase of Gateway ClonaseTM from Invitrogen is required for carrying out any GatewayTM recombinational cloning reactions.

InvivoGen Lucia® Luciferase Limited Use Label License

For plasmids containing the Lucia® Luciferase InvivoGen technology, please see the InvivoGen Limited Use Label License.

InvivoGen pSELECT Limited Use Label License

For plasmids containing the pSELECT InvivoGen technology, please see the InvivoGen Limited Use Label License.

Life Technologies End-User License for Cellecta Lentiviral Expression System

Use of Cellectal Lentiviral Expression Systems requires acknowledgment of the Life Technologies End User Label License for the Use of Cellecta Lentiviral Expression Systems (The recipient scientist must acknowledge this LULL to receive material; the recipient institution signature is not required).

National Institute of Genetics Tol2 System

For plasmids containing the Tol2 system from the National Institute of Genetics (NIG), please see the National Institute of Genetics Limited Use Label License (The recipient scientist must acknowledge this LULL to receive material; the recipient institution signature is not required).

Promega Limited Use Label Licenses

For plasmids containing Firefly Luciferase patented by Promega, please see Luciferase Limited Use Label License. For plasmids specifically containing NanoLuc, please see the NanoLuc Luciferase Limited Use Label License. For plasmids specifically containing HaloTag technology, please see the HaloTag Vector Limited Use Label License. For plasmids specifically containing CBR2 technology, please see the CBR2 Limited Use Label License. For plasmids specifically containing CBG2 technology, please see the CBG2 Limited Use Label License. For plasmids specifically containing Renilla Luciferase technology, please see the Renilla Luciferase Limited Use Label License. (The recipient scientist must acknowledge this LULL to receive material; the recipient institution signature is not required).

Takara BIO USA, Fluorescent Proteins

For plasmids containing Fluorescent Proteins (e.g., DsRed, ZsGreen, mCherry) sold and/or owned by Takara Bio USA, Inc., please see Takara Bio Limited Use Label License (formerly Clontech) (The recipient scientist must acknowledge this LULL to receive material; the recipient institution signature is not required).

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company

For materials discovered using patented Takeda Pharmaceutical Company material, please see Takeda Recombinant Antibody Limited Use Label License (The recipient scientist must acknowledge this LULL to receive material; the recipient institution signature is not required).

Tet Systems Materials

For plasmids containing Tetracycline controllable expression systems patented by Tet Systems, please see Tet Systems Limited Use Label License (The recipient scientist must acknowledge this LULL to receive material; the recipient institution signature is not required).