Flower Variety Trial Agreement

Flower Variety Trial Agreement

A Flower Variety Trial is the evaluation of a sponsor’s flower varieties. Flower variety trials differ from other field trial grants in the way intellectual property is managed. Under standard field trial grants, the University does not claim ownership to any intellectual property involving the use of any sponsor-provided materials. In flower trials, the intellectual property language is expanded in that ownership of a new flower variety resulting from the evaluation will be owned by the Sponsor. Many species of flowers can generate sports, mutations, or new plant cultivars discovered during the evaluation of the flower material. This frequently arises as uv light mutations, occurring in the natural sunshine in temperate latitudes. These new sports, mutations, etc. will be owned by the Sponsor.

This Agreement is limited to monitoring of flower materials only and does not include further analysis/evaluation nor the furtherance of basic research.

Flower Variety Trials are treated as an ‘Unrestricted Grant’ with F&A capped at 15% Total Costs as described in the University’s Funding Matrix (see Research Administration Policy RA04).

Funding Limitation: $25,000 or less. Proposed trials in excess of $25,000 require further review by the Office of Sponsored Programs prior to submission.